How To Use Connive at In A Sentence

Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.
So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.

It doesn't really matter how materially privileged they are, they are still miserable and we connive at making them even unhappier.
This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.
We should not connive at terrorism.