machinate

How To Use machinate In A Sentence

• Our tax dollars pay for people to sit in a room and machinate about all the likely next horrible things that could happen. Kimberly Brooks: Anniversary of Katrina
• So while the upper level machinations are being machinated, and assuming that Obama is indeed the shrewdest gambler since Kenny Rogers, then why not in the meantime give the majority of Americans who voted Obama into office on a swell of hope a show they can actually get behind? Steven Weber: Team Dispirit
• As he lay gathering strength to sit up in bed, which treat had been promised him in ten days, Aladdin's mind worked hard over the future, and what he could machinate in order one day to be almost worthy to kiss the dust under Margaret's feet. Aladdin O'Brien
• The Armadillos were as shadows of a dark, machinated dream. Oberheim (Voices)
• He would machinate with really considerable energy, and repair to a certain gallery high above the street of moving ways, from which he could view the entrance to the barrack of the Labour Company in the ward which sheltered Denton and Elizabeth. Tales of Space and Time
• Knowing that death would follow the machinated horror, Philius gave one final prayer.
• Didn't his aura originally stem from the content of his striated torso, his internally-produced, natural, material charisma, quite apart from the machinated forms of the culture industry?
• Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government. A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
• He machinated for this purpose, and "[d] uring the 1952 presidential campaign .... made a series of speeches accusing the Truman administration of weakness in the face of Communist advances. Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II.
• -- Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners