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Example sentences for "engineered"

Lexicographically close words:
engi; engin; engine; engined; engineer; engineering; engineers; engineman; enginemen; enginery
  1. He produces a bottle of milk, which it would appear he came by accidentally, though the whole thing is planned and engineered by the boy.

  2. You tell him that you have had nothing to do with that, and that if he is inclined to make presents, he had better take them to the friend who has really engineered the business.

  3. It is perfectly certain that our friend engineered the whole business up to and including the letter, which was meant for you.

  4. He had engineered his schemes beautifully; his revenge would be as perfect.

  5. It was Beard who engineered the substitution," observed the chief.

  6. You've been identified in this very room as the person who engineered the substitution of prisoners.

  7. As for Beard who engineered the deal, I doubt whether you can convict him.

  8. The moon was up, and showed the sort of scenery through which we passed, by a very hilly but well-engineered road, to great advantage, in its various aspects.

  9. It was broad daylight when we wound up a narrow path to the heights above the village of Vivario, thus saving an angle of the well-engineered high-road by which the voiture, preceding us, had gained the summit.

  10. The subsequent judicial inquiry brought out the fact clearly that the pogrom had been engineered by Gladkov and his associates, a fact of which the local authorities could not have been ignorant.

  11. A forward pass, superbly engineered by Tom, gave them twelve yards.

  12. A forward pass, beautifully engineered by Tom, garnered eight more.

  13. More than once he had engineered some game that brought honor and glory to the boys of Stanhope; and remembering these satisfactory "stunts" of old, it was no wonder these fellows had come to the place of meeting without a single exception.

  14. All being still again, he turned to the grinning old farmer, who was doubtless getting more solid satisfaction out of this new experience than he had obtained from any clever dicker or trade engineered in the last ten years.

  15. It was not that he felt a particle jealous of the recent exploit which his chum had engineered so successfully; for envy was not one of his failings.

  16. The most unusual propositions are generally engineered by the Russian refugees.

  17. Once we witnessed a big forest fire engineered for the purpose of destroying the hiding-places where the Nationalist volunteers would take refuge after their successful raids against the armies of occupation.

  18. Having made a conciliatory offer to the Ulstermen, would the Government, have engineered a plot for their provocation?

  19. Page was a shrewd man, and he did not commit the error of underestimating the ability of the rival who had engineered this subtle stroke.

  20. It was perfectly well known that this opposition was almost entirely artificial; but it was so well engineered that there was grave doubt whether it might not affect the voting in the Lower House.

  21. Well," he said, "the worst possibility is a riot, engineered by the Socialists.

  22. Anything that threatened the success of the coup which was being engineered by himself and his three confreres was to be dealt with decisively and without loss of time.

  23. You, who engineered the plot, and plunged us all into these terrific difficulties, escape the consequences.

  24. I will assert that the whole thing was a plot, engineered by you as soon as my client had laid his plans before you.

  25. There's no need to repeat what I heard, but my suspicions were confirmed, and when the pair moved out of the shrubbery I knew for certain that, between them, they had engineered my ruin.

  26. If the syndicate had engineered a big swindle, at least, they must be given credit for picking out a likely site for a mine.

  27. It is an error to imagine that that outbreak was engineered or that such a movement could have been factitious.

  28. The two superimposed roads between Nice and Mentone known as the Upper and the Lower Corniche, are both laboriously engineered highways, possessing almost unrivalled charms.

  29. Vast communities of men were beginning to realise that a tragedy was being engineered in the name of sanctity and humanity.

  30. Never have there been such universal tokens of condemnation of the captivity and the creatures who engineered it, and never such unequalled joy and homage as were paid to the memory of the great dead.

  31. When he was pressed to take office, he engineered a military mutiny in the Peking area, which did enormous property damage and gave him an adequate excuse for remaining where he was.

  32. A series of uprisings engineered by military and agitational leaders followed, province by province, all directed against the imperial power in the North.

  33. Three northern servants, engineered by a Yankee boarding-house keeper, would do more work than a dozen of these slaves.

  34. The bogey takes the specific form of a charge against the Jews of Russia and Poland that they are for the most part Bolsheviks, and that the Bolshevist revolution was engineered by them and is still controlled and directed by them.

  35. There is reason to believe that it has itself been engineered by a more substantial hand reaching out stealthily from the arcanum of German Militarist Reaction.

  36. Perhaps we spend the night here, and in the morning ascend to the mesa on to the Tonto, then up the well-engineered trail to Grand View Cave (see description in chapter on Grand View Trail).

  37. The grade of the spur was so engineered that the loaded cars of ore from the mine (when in operation) are brought down by gravity.

  38. In many of my yarns I have mentioned the massacre at Poverty Bay that was engineered by that arch-devil, Te Kooti, and his gang of fiends, called Hau Haus.

  39. There is no nobler highway in Scotland than the broad, level and finely engineered road from Stranraer through Castle Douglas to Dumfries.

  40. A finely engineered road leads to the fort, where a large garrison of soldiers is stationed.

  41. From Golspie to Wick we are seldom out of sight of the ocean and there are many pleasing vistas from the clifflike hills which the finely engineered road ascends in long sweeping curves.

  42. Her highways are already broad and perfectly engineered and need only surfacing.


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