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Example sentences for "tampered"

Lexicographically close words:
tamned; tamo; tamp; tamped; tamper; tampering; tampers; tampes; tamping; tampoco
  1. It has been but slightly tampered with by orthodox hands.

  2. Mazzuchelli argues that Aretino tampered with the letters written to him, and interpolated passages before he sent them to the press.

  3. I think we had better deal with the matter of this dispatch that was tampered with at Penalva.

  4. And he related how the dispatch bore signs of having been tampered with, and how the only document of any real importance came to be missing from it.

  5. The dispatches bore signs of having been tampered with.

  6. Mazzini," said Mr. Duncombe, "and this was why his letters had been tampered with.

  7. He has tampered with kings, and connived with the Czar; His Bulgarian twaddle once caused a great war, Where thousands were slain, but what did he heed, He still went to Church the lessons to read.

  8. He has tampered and tarnished his national fame; He has injured Great Britain in interest and aim— Caused strife, war and bloodshed too reckless I ween, Not caring for honour of England or Queen.

  9. In the main the great church, which has been tampered with at very various times, if not rebuilt, must have been Early English in style.

  10. It has been so tampered with and restored that little remains that is unspoilt.

  11. On the part of the prosecution it is alleged that the deceased, John Parsons Cook, was first tampered with by antimony, that he was then killed by the poison of strychnia, and that his symptoms were the symptoms of poisoning by strychnia.

  12. Taylor’s letter; and lastly, the fact of his having tampered with the coroner to procure a verdict which would have amounted to an acquittal of the charge which was then, as now, hanging over his head.

  13. Supplies were allowed to pass through the palace gate, after they had been tampered with.

  14. In the course of my duty I have to see that the seals have not been tampered with.

  15. As frequently happens with thick envelopes, the gum was defective, and the back of a penknife served to open the cover without in any way betraying the fact that the cover had been tampered with.

  16. By faulty, tampered with, and corrupt, I here mean written so incorrectly, that the meaning cannot be arrived at by a study of the language, nor from the authority of Scripture.

  17. There was no lack of food, for game was plentiful and Invar had found and mended the throwing-spears which Esle had tampered with.

  18. Esle tampered with our spears, which you ordered her to strengthen for the battle with the cousins of Gumor," said Anak.

  19. Topanashka could scarcely believe that his daughter had tampered with magic by causing the dark-coloured corn to speak, and keeping owl's feathers in her possession.

  20. She has nothing to do with evil, nor has she tampered with it.

  21. Either we must say that the proofs are genuine throughout, and that Morton did not suffer them to be tampered with, or we must absolve Mary.

  22. But her letters have been tampered with by an editor, who was a forger and a falsifier.

  23. The Memoirs are not written by Sully himself, and have been tampered with.

  24. Nobody, I think, at the present day, will deny that the letters, as we have them, were tampered with.

  25. The “air went blue for miles” as the outraged fisherman expressed his opinion of the practical jokers who had tampered with his tackle.

  26. Likewise some members were sent to the inns of court to let them know how they heard they were tampered withal to assist the king against them, and therefore they desired them not to come to Westminster.

  27. Hyson is exceedingly mortified at the occurrence, and protests that the instruments have been tampered with.

  28. But when we got into the wreckage, we found the steering vanes had been tampered with, in a way that inspection couldn't have disclosed.

  29. But as of this moment we cannot say whether it was the kind of accident that rocketeers always have to expect, or whether someone tampered with the pump.

  30. So Neaera set herself to discussing very seriously the situation with Chairo, assured him that she was prepared to sacrifice herself, and with a tear in her eye admitted to him, almost in a whisper, that she had tampered with his carriage.

  31. While his messenger was away evidence had been presented to him which left no doubt as to Neaera having tampered with Chairo's carriage; and this was more than sufficient as a last straw.

  32. Chairo says some one treacherously tampered with his carriage.

  33. My carriage had been tampered with; it broke down within a mile of the cloister.

  34. You are charged, too, with having tampered with Chairo's carriage in order to prevent his escape with Lydia.

  35. He had been inclined to think that Mary, watching through the keyhole as she had done, had not been able to see distinctly, and that in her limited range of vision had imagined that the safe was being tampered with.

  36. It showed no sign of having been tampered with, having evidently been opened with its proper key--or an exact copy of it.

  37. By Colonel Stanistreet's order it was covered as soon as we found it had been tampered with.

  38. Whoever unfastened it entered my room during my absence and tampered with my luggage.

  39. But it was at least with a pious motive that the latter tampered with the Deposit.

  40. But you told me before you opened the packet that you would take your oath in a court of justice it had not been tampered with.

  41. Apply to it the severest tests which your ingenuity can devise, or other men of genius can suggest to you, and let me give it to Haxby and see if the contents can be extracted, or tampered with a second time.

  42. The object of Mr. Prendergast's precaution was, of course, to prevent the body from being tampered with.

  43. By tampered with I mean in such manner as to destroy the traces of the poison.

  44. Somebody had tampered with their radio, and put it out of working order.

  45. At the time that they were making their first flying machine, any man who tampered with the subject of flying through the air was looked upon as crazy.

  46. We saw that the gates had been tampered with, but with the limited time Ahla had to work in, she had been unable to force them.

  47. The mirrors were being tampered with, that none of these events should be shown.

  48. I'll see if the room has been tampered with.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tampered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.