conspire - use in sentences

Infinitive complement

  • thwart: However, in an exercise of this sort, circumstances may conspire to thwart the original intention.

Preposition: with

  • man: Hermia arrives and Helena accuses her of conspiring with the men to tease her.

Modifying Another Word

  • always: For some reason this year, we have the knack of hitting the woodwork: Why do the gods always conspire against us?
  • then: All the services, in a sense, then conspire for HIV to become the primary focus for the person.

Infinitive complement

  • defraud: Two directors who conspired to defraud investors in an ostrich breeding scheme, pleaded guilty earlier in the trial.
  • rob: The prosecution said three conspired to rob Mr Sheridan of £ 4,000, which were hidden in the shop.
  • conceal: It's more a case of circumstances conspiring to conceal the truth.

Modifying Another Word

  • together: A whole sequence of events conspired together to bring us into a living relationship with Jesus.
  • all: But they all conspired to induce me into writing.

Preposition: in

  • myth: There was a sense in which Power conspired in this myth of the female scholar.

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