Examples of scheming in a Sentence
the novel is about an elderly man and his scheming son who is impatient to inherit the family fortune
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The show gestures at the classic targets of old-timey sexism, small-mindedness, and nativism—much of it embodied by Gasteyer’s scheming character—but only in the safest possible ways.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Chace Crawford catapulted to fame playing the scheming social butterflies flitting around Gossip Girl's Upper East Side.
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Rachel Desantis,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Apr. 2026
That would be Mark Rylance as Henry’s lord privy seal, Thomas Cromwell, an endlessly fascinating and ambiguous figure—brilliant, scheming, moral—whom Rylance animates with gravity and kaleidoscopic skill.
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Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
The doors that slam, as farcical doors are built to do, open to work spaces, where a good deal of time is spent scheming and counter-scheming.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Chace Crawford catapulted to fame playing the scheming social butterflies flitting around Gossip Girl's Upper East Side.
—
Rachel Desantis,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Apr. 2026
That would be Mark Rylance as Henry’s lord privy seal, Thomas Cromwell, an endlessly fascinating and ambiguous figure—brilliant, scheming, moral—whom Rylance animates with gravity and kaleidoscopic skill.
—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
The doors that slam, as farcical doors are built to do, open to work spaces, where a good deal of time is spent scheming and counter-scheming.
—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scheming
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“Scheming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scheming. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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