How to Use scheme in a Sentence

scheme

1 of 2 noun

• The company has a new scheme for insurance coverage.
• One loss, in the grand scheme of a long season, won’t mean too much.
  — David Wilson, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• Elliot Adler pleaded guilty last year to a role in a tax scheme.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
• This set off a scramble to secure visas in the country before the scheme closed.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
• And a man who’s lost his shirt in two ponzi schemes isn’t likely to learn from his mistakes.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2023
• But the 3-technique should better unleash his pass rush skills than the Rebels’ scheme did.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• But the scheme has since expanded so that anyone over 18 and living in the UK can sign up.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• Kriv’s father testified at trial in the first fraud case and did not face charges for his role in that scheme.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2023
• Jim Girard and his staff will try to devise a scheme that contains Eason and the Rangers offense.
  — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• The table is offered in three colors and has a minimal look that can work with just about any decor scheme.
  — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
• Three New Jersey businessmen were also charged in the bribery scheme.
  — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• The Run and Shoot is a difficult scheme to limit and UH has two primary targets to aim for.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• Lodge, who was charged in the scheme, was a former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue.
  — Time, 16 July 2023
• The indictment says that the scheme was foiled by a U.S. government informant.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the grand scheme of things, the amount of stories about things in development that actually achieve fruition is very slim.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• The three games are all coming to the Switch with improved graphics and, hopefully, improved control schemes.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
• The malware can often arrive through phishing email schemes.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 24 Aug. 2023
• Netflix is wise to this scheme, however, and actively works to block users who connect via VPN.
  — PCMAG, 15 Apr. 2024
• If the cruise missile is wider than the torpedo tube, designers must pick a different launch scheme.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
• Such visas by investment schemes have been at the root of serious housing crises in the countries offering them.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Buck the traditional red-and-green scheme for a pink-and-orange grosgrain-ribbon topper.
  — Pamela Brill, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2023
• Maybe because there are very few real deals in proportion to the non-deals (dreams) in the world, making the latter a way to make money (schemes) if the inertia is low enough.
  — Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• For weeks, desperation sat atop him like a circus tent, a new scheme hatching each moment.
  — Airea D. Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2023
• And once George schemes his way into the monarch’s bedroom, King James ends up in some rather compromising positions.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• The degree of shade that will be beneficial for a river will be key and is an important thing to establish in any scheme.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 8 June 2023
• The whole scheme appears aimed at winning ad revenue from the page views of people who unwittingly land on the site’s garbled content.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
• The current scheme no longer caps the rebate to €1.8 million per film and instead has an annual cap of €10 million in rebates for all foreign shoots.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• The funds were frozen, and Flores and Moore attempted to salvage the funds through various money-laundering schemes.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Layers in a scheme might be innocent members of their church or their neighbors or family.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• This might include a scheme to get a deduction for artwork or the fraudulent use of a charitable trust.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024

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scheme

2 of 2 verb

• He felt that the other men were scheming against him.
• He was betrayed by a scheming friend.
• Dude might scheme up a storm, by all accounts, and teach with the best of ’em.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• Trying to scheme your way to a pass rush is a risky proposition in the NFL.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• Frank Reich can still scheme open wide receivers with the best of them.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2021
• The depth is there, but how the Bengals will scheme against the Titans is something to watch for Sunday.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
• At times, Smith seemed to believe that prison staff were scheming against him.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• But Mary and George Villiers would soon scheme to supplant Carr in the king’s esteem.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The Cardinals will have to scheme blitzes to come in and not rely on the 3-man rush, drop-8, theory.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2021
• McDaniel can scheme receivers open from 20-yard line to 20-yard line.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• Reich’s offense is designed to scheme guys open and give them room to run.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• Chicago lost the game 12-7 and likely used the extra days off to scheme up a new offensive game plan.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• If there’s a way to force Cleveland to throw the ball, Belichick will scheme it into existence.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
• Archibald said Daybell is the mastermind behind the killings and scheming.
  — USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• The offensive line has questions, but Harrell should be able to scheme ways to keep Slovis on his feet.
  — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• People schemed, finagled, wheedled, and conspired, caught up in the mad, headlong rush of the city.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The plan to scheme open secondary options didn't really work today, and nor did settling for a field goal at the end.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2022
• Billups told him that teams were going to scheme for him differently as the starting point guard.
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2022
• The Huskies lost Finkley on the defensive line from last season, which means more teams will scheme to make Osborne the prime target.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 5 Aug. 2022
• No matter what the Dolphins tried to scheme up against the Bengals, Cincinnati’s offensive line held their ground.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2022
• Both of them carry the baggage of decades in the Washington swamp and both of them schemed to keep the Democrat nomination from Bernie Sanders.
  — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2020
• In the cutthroat world of reality TV, alliances will be forged, trust will be shattered, and villains will scheme their way to the top.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Bears were completely outclassed by the Packers from personnel to scheme.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Watch for Tampa Bay to scheme something for Antonio Brown.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
• So while the first two weeks were based in scheming against run fits and triple-option looks, this week’s matchup will be dependent upon stopping the pass.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• Not even coach Neal Brown could scheme around the running game's deficiencies and the offensive line's issues from guard to guard.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
• Still, with Ozark coming off a buzzy penultimate season, Laura Linney's Wendy may scheme her way to the top.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• Rudolph shot his wife through the heart with a 12-gauge shotgun on the last day of their hunt, scheming to make the murder look like an accident, Monday’s release said.
  — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, Bakary keeps trying to get them out of there, teaming up with a fellow tirailleur, Salif (Bamar Kane), to scheme and steal his way to freedom.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022
• From Spain, El Planeta is about a mother and daughter on the verge of eviction who scheme their way into better lives.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024