complot

Example Sentences

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Jack Reacher descubre un complot a nivel estatal para culpar a Susan Turner, la antigua jefa de su unidad, de traición al gobierno.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

Madam, be it in secret spoken to your self, if you will but follow the complot I have invented, you will not think me so forward as your self shall prove fortunate.

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

He fancies, or asserts himself, the victim of a domestic complot against him;—accounts are accounts—prices are prices;—let him make out a fair detail.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

Esope quelque fois la nuit, De complot avec la servante, Chalumoit sans faire de bruit Les tonneaux de son maitre Xante.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert

I will leaue not a root, a stalke, a tree, A bowe, a branch, a blossome, nor a leafe,— Not, not a hearb within this garden plot, Accursed complot of my miserie!

From The Spanish Tragedie by Kyd, Thomas