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Example sentences for "connive"

Lexicographically close words:
connexional; connexions; conning; conniption; connivance; connived; connives; conniving; connois; connoissance
  1. And again, if, notwithstanding the hostile attitude in which we stand in relation to each other England is compelled to encourage a trade by license, will not her necessities equally induce her to connive at exportation?

  2. O'Leary, having been led to connive at the legislative union, he expressed remorse.

  3. While guiltless, no doubt, of direct betrayal, he may have been led to connive at a trick by which the Irish Government succeeded in breaking up the Convention.

  4. I must further inform you, if you will promise to encourage or at least to connive at me, that it is my Design to strike such a Stroke the Beginning of the next Month, as shall surprise the whole Town.

  5. The Players do not only connive at his obstreperous Approbation, but very cheerfully repair at their own Cost whatever Damages he makes.

  6. This Artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, to shrug up their Shoulders in a dubious Case, to connive with either Eye, and in a Word, the whole Practice of Political Grimace.

  7. There must have been much skill among the players; much simple good faith, contentment, and willingness to connive at theatrical illusion on the part of the audience.

  8. It has been suggested that gag is leniently, and even favourably considered by audiences; and it should be added that dramatists often connive at the interpolations of the theatre.

  9. Thus they were for ever short of money, and were compelled to connive at malpractices on the part of servants whom they could not pay.

  10. Wink at~, Connive at, pretend not to see, shut one's eyes to.

  11. They will tell us it would be a prostitution of the prerogative of the Crown to connive at crime in the rich and punish it in the poor.

  12. That young stripling has cost me more lives than he numbers years; and though I could not connive at Bertha's attempt to assassinate, I certainly do not see much reason to rejoice at his escape.

  13. I may be deceived, but I dare not connive at deception.

  14. Large sums of money were ready to bribe the turnkey to connive at an escape.

  15. Fearful to indispose the minds of subjects, pecuniary levies were cautiously resorted to; hence the officers were compelled to connive at plunder, and the destitute soldier often had no other means to supply his imperious wants.

  16. He retained too much of the gentleman to practise extortion, or to connive at the rapacity by which his subalterns tried to make the most of their brief authority.

  17. Cranmer and Ridley, as well as the council, would have consented to this indulgence, the young king, whose education had unhappily infused a good deal of bigotry into his mind, could not be prevailed upon to connive at such idolatry.

  18. Those who should conceal or connive at the offenders were to be held guilty of misprision of treason.

  19. The owner must lose the whole of him as a testimony to the sacredness of human life, and a warning to all not to do any thing, or connive at any thing that tended to destroy it.

  20. Each individual ought, without delay, in view of eternity, to clear himself, and neither by precept nor example, ever again encourage or even connive at this deadly evil.

  21. I will not by practice encourage, or by silence, or having men in my employment who take ardent spirits, connive at this deadly evil.

  22. If the monarchy could not bear with such divisions because they tendered to a commonwealth, neither can a commonwealth connive at such accumulations because they tend to a monarchy.

  23. Mrs. Admaston, if that is true, why were you afraid to talk to him upon the night of the 23rd March, and why did you connive at a deliberate lie on the following day?

  24. Then why did you invent--or connive at the invention of--this story?


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; agree; angle; associate; brew; cabal; cogitable; coincide; collaborate; combine; concoct; concur; connive; conspire; contrive; cooperate; correspond; countermine; devise; engineer; finesse; frame; harmonize; hatch; intrigue; join; maneuver; operate; plot; rig; scheme; synchronize; unite