How to Use connivance in a Sentence

connivance

noun

• Such dodges work only with the connivance of the courts.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
• In the old days, bride kidnapping, often with the connivance of the bride, was the key to courtship.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
• Information is mounting about the connivance in all of this.
  — Jay Ambrose, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• With the connivance of the board of directors, he was afforded all sorts of corporate perks and huge grants of stock options.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2020
• In his scenes with Charley, there’s a lifetime of scrounging and connivance reflected in Del’s gimlet eyes.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
• Much of Mr Kabuga’s time was spent there, almost certainly with the connivance of officials.
  — The Economist, 21 May 2020
• For all the connivance in Adams’s character, another side of the Adams legacy is also plain.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The people who elected Mr. Trump are people whose expectations have been raised by the connivance of the market.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• The ability to cram such sheer connivance into every sentence must have been what first attracted Trump to his son-in-law.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 July 2017
• With liberal connivance, indeed, the Supreme Court has in our time become more business-friendly than at any other point in nearly a century.
  — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
• Such outrages there remain unpunished because the United States and their allies with the connivance of international human rights entities, have been covering up the crimes of the Kiev regime.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
• As the investigation continued, however, Cook and his parents came to suspect that the Murdaughs were trying to pin the blame on him, possibly with the connivance of local law enforcement.
  — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Finally, Albright’s cases reveal a third factor in fascism’s rise: the connivance of conservatives.
  — Sheri Berman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• The legislature, with the eager connivance of Governor Tim Walz, voted routinely in partisan lockstep to enact a wish list of left-wing radicalism.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
• After exploiting everything and everyone, making millions and, in Epstein’s case, billions, both men died as guests of the nation, with either the abject incompetence or sinister connivance of a government that once coddled them.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Joe Childers, assistant city attorney, stated in a January memorandum to Pettigrew that her circumstances did not fit within the definition of self-dealing unless there was evidence of connivance and bad faith on her part.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024