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"Scheme" in a Sentence (23 examples)
Your scheme is like a house built on the sand.
Your help is indispensable for the success of the scheme.
What if the scheme doesn't work out?
There is a scheme to expand the company.
The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.
This scheme is clumsy production wise.
After weighing all these considerations, the promoters will present their scheme in the form of a private bill; however, they might find themselves forced to alter the route in order to meet criticisms in Parliament.
Under no circumstances can the scheme be put into practice.
As for the scheme I had in my head, it was not a bad one in itself.
To my knowledge, he has not been involved in the fraud scheme.
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a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].
the appearance and outward scheme of things
such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
arguments […] sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.
“You can’t really say to the kids in the schemes [Scottish council estates]^([sic]): don’t do drugs, they’ll wreck your life, you’ll never get a job or a house or buy nice things.”
Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.
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