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Example sentences for "concocted"

Lexicographically close words:
conclusive; conclusively; conclusiveness; conclusyon; concoct; concocting; concoction; concoctions; concocts; concolorous
  1. I was declared a brazen cheat who had concocted the most colossal lie of ages whereby to hoax an entire world for gain.

  2. That, knowing their first charges were certain to fail, the statement of October 13 was concocted for their own base purposes.

  3. From the methods pursued by this society later, I am inclined to the belief that the Dunkle-Loose fake was concocted for members of this society.

  4. That, Sir, was the tissue of lies which that jailbird had concocted for my undoing, knowing well that I could not disprove them because it had been my task on that eventful morning to keep an eye on M.

  5. I pined in a lonely prison-cell while these two limbs of Satan concocted a plot to rob me of my share in our mutual undertaking.

  6. There was a certain little restaurant in the Rue des Pipots where they concocted a cassolette of goose liver and pork chops with haricot beans which .

  7. On the night of Lucy's flight from Red Hall, he had concocted a plan which it was not his intention to put in execution for a day or two, as he had by no means made up his mind in what manner to proceed with it.

  8. He surely does not live; or if he does, the far-sighted sagacity which made the account of his death a fraud upon my credulity, for such selfish and treacherous purposes, is worthy of being concocted in the deepest pit of hell.

  9. Likewise, naturally I began meditating with great vigor upon a scheme to circumvent the old terror, and at last my colossal brain concocted a plan that led me to chortle with joy.

  10. What if the one who concocted the scheme and benefited by it swore your liberty away and escaped scot-free himself?

  11. Yet more concocted it descends, where shame Forbids to mention: and from thence distils In natural vessel on another's blood.

  12. The miserable, crazy creeds of Christendom were concocted by these brawling pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the souls of men.

  13. The pagan priests, at a very early date in the present era, finding that they were losing their hold on the people, concocted from pagan originals a new religion called the Christian.

  14. Probably the epistle was innocently concocted as a literary exercise by an admirer, who wished to explain or apologise for his temporary loss of self-control.

  15. It was he who proposed the bowl of punch, which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room, and which Gumbo concocted with exquisite skill.

  16. And so he called in Parson Sampson, and they concocted a billet together.

  17. So Mr. Daymond and I have concocted quite a new scheme,--or rather the idea was mine and he is going to paint them.

  18. So runs the story concocted a hundred years later by some gentle scribe ignorant alike of game seasons, the habits of hunters, and the way of a man with a maid in a primitive world.

  19. But it upset them, they wanted something more religious, they said; and so then I concocted that wretched thing over there.

  20. Moreover, these feigners were far from numerous, despite all that was related of them in the amusing stories concocted by Voltairean humourists.

  21. Lamerliere of having concocted the miracle, and when she took proceedings against them for libel she lost her case.

  22. They received her with every demonstration of affection; and little did she suspect that an infamous scheme had been concocted between them, to sacrifice her upon the altars of avarice and lust.

  23. Our hero felt considerable uneasiness in the knowledge that the Dead Man was then in the city; and when he reflected that the Doctor had joined that arch miscreant, he knew not what infernal plot might be concocted against his liberty or life.

  24. A combination was formed among a few influential Natives, whose names I am ashamed to mention, and a well concocted system of fraud was organised.

  25. A designing priesthood had concocted an almost endless round of superstitious rites with the view of acquiring power, and looking for permanent reverence to the credulity of the blind devotees.

  26. A hare or rabbit is believed to sit at the foot of the cassia-tree in the moon, pounding the drugs out of which is concocted the elixir of immortality.

  27. Mrs. Macdonald declares that she has produced such proof; and she points triumphantly to her garbled and concocted manuscripts.

  28. Of course they don't know who took them and the original plates or films are destroyed, but they've concocted some means of putting a date on them early in the spring.

  29. There is a plot concocted by Marshal Tavannes.

  30. This was a carefully concocted version of the Reynolds affair.

  31. There was an allusion to horseback rides, and a less fertile imagination could have concocted a very tolerable story out of the facts (?

  32. The story came to the ears of Maurice however, and helped to feed his wrath against the Advocate, as if he were responsible for a plot, if plot it were, which had been concocted by his own deadliest enemies.

  33. Turgot believed in the existence of a plot concocted by the Prince of Conti, with the design of overthrowing him.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concocted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    artificial; fabricated; fabulous; fake; false; fancied; fantastic; fantastical; fictional; fictitious; forged; hatched; invented; legendary; manufactured; mythical