How to Use scheming in a Sentence

scheming

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• Reed pushed Cale out, and in turn was pushed out by a scheming manager.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2017
• With Terrance all but out of the house, more scheming begins.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• And who could forget black cat Salem, who provides many comedic moments through all of his scheming plots?
  — Kathleen Christiansen, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Being part of the scheming couple’s inner circle requires Leann to get down and very dirty.
  — The Mercury News, 30 May 2017
• Brazil’s tabloids were portraying her as a scheming murderer, and as a cult leader who held orgies with her own children.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• When Denker is forced to attempt a broth, which is awful — to the delight of Spratt — his scheming backfires.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• The shortage has sparked outrage, dismay and more than a little scheming on social media accounts.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 17 June 2022
• Even in her 20s, she was often cast as a scheming, villainous matriarch.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• After the death of his royal father, a young lion returns to battle his scheming uncle for the jungle throne.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• When a conspiracy unravels, a bunny cop and a scheming fox team up to uncover the truth.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Aug. 2017
• Fellowes recycles too many of his favorite archetypes, from the closeted gay couple to the scheming servant.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 20 Jan. 2022
• Spying swordtails, wily ravens and scheming mongooses are just three examples of the means by which animals make their power plays.
  — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
• There will now be two games of tape for opponents to see what Tucker has changed, which makes counter-scheming foes critical for him and his assistants.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
• Jake Thomas Jake played Lizzie's scheming little brother Matt and has already signed on for the reboot.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 1 Nov. 2019
• The scheming Roys consistently snipe at one another, as do the piano keys, but all of that gives way to loud, sweeping drama from time to time.
  — Sonia Rao, Houston Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2019
• Shakespeare’s a most unflattering character in the show, a scheming combination fop and rock star.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
• Through an exclusive matchmaking agency that caters to the ultra rich, a divorcee plots revenge against her ex-husband’s scheming mistress.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 July 2022
• Rick is lured into exploitation and murder by a gaunt and scheming videographer played by Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
• Could records of people’s immune status fall into the hands of a scheming demagogue and be used for authoritarian ends?
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2021
• In Zellweger’s hands, Pam at least has a scheming interiority, wheels that are spinning in ways that the show unveils at a glacial pace.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
• Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy get revenge on two scheming executives.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• The boy zillionaire saves his parents and Rich Industries from a scheming executive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Unsure how to discipline him, Reid sells Rawls and his mother to his scheming neighbor Antony Levallois.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• The series, which takes place in Paris on the eve of the revolution, tells the story of how a pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others with the power of seduction.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• To make things even more complicated for the first family, there's a coup afoot; a scheming general is also working behind the scenes to snatch Akeem's throne right from under him.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• This one stars Hugh Laurie as a scheming UK government minister trying to navigate a pair of scandals.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
• What initially seems to be a satire about corporate downsizing evolves into a kind of scheming caper romp, before downshifting into something that feels more horror-comedy structured.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
• The scheming and cruel femme fatale, Milady de Winter, is judged guilty of the most heinous murders by an ad hoc tribunal consisting of the musketeers and her late husband’s brother.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• Jodie Foster kissed the scheming bisexual documentarian from The L Word while both wore pajamas and held a big dog.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, his scheming sister, Magda (Cecilia Suárez, who’s fantastic), wants to take over the family business and would just as soon see her brother stay missing.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018