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"Intrigue" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Foreign people intrigue me.
He watches for an opportunity to intrigue against his rival.
This is a story full of intrigue, love, betrayal and secrets.
The president-elect's cabinet selection process appeared in disarray, even as his fawning acolytes disputed multiple news reports of backbiting, vendettas, infighting and persistent, bitter acrimony. With the constantly ongoing palace intrigue, it was difficult to know for certain who was in charge.
I believe there is some deep political intrigue going on around me, and that for some reason that passes my understanding my life is aimed at by the conspirators.
The charms of the nymph's mind completed the conquest which her beauty had begun, and the mystery of the intrigue added zest to both.
We have proof that, at the time of his death, he was carrying on an intrigue with a Frenchwoman, a Madame Daubreuil, who rents the adjoining Villa.
People with criminal inclinations, inclined toward authoritarianism, cynicism, manipulation, intrigue, and terror, sympathize with Stalin. Revolutionary leftist democrats with a decisive, intransigent character, ready to achieve a goal, much prefer Lenin.
Some Christians intrigue themselves with the notions of Judaism, as Eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Animism, and so forth seem so faraway for them.
No matter what image the name Cleopatra conjures up—a seductress who swayed two Roman rulers, the actress Elizabeth Taylor or the tragic heroine in a play by William Shakespeare—Egypt's last queen continues to fascinate and intrigue more than 2,000 years after her death.
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[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped [pawned] his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]
Morality at Delli is at as low an ebb as in the far interior of Brazil, and crimes are connived at which would entail infamy and criminal prosecution in Europe. While I was there it was generally asserted and believed in the place, that two officers had poisoned the husbands of women with whom they were carrying on intrigues, and with whom they immediately cohabited on the death of their rivals.
He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
In 1679 and 1680 there were persistent rumors of an intrigue between Mary, Lady Grey, and the Duke of Monmouth.
Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.
How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
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