How to Use machination in a Sentence

machination

noun

• After a while this starts to feel like dithering, or the machinations of soap opera.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• The focus was on people, the machinations and ploys of city dwellers.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Now, we are left with nothing, only the machinations of the academy.
  — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
• But Blackstone’s machinations seem to have broken the spirit, rather than the letter, of the rules.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• There isn’t a lot more to the story than the romantic machinations, but really, is there much more to any stories?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 31 May 2018
• Glanzman says neurobiologists have been studying the machinations of snail brains for decades.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 17 May 2018
• But for all of the Tigers’ machinations, that sub-.500 record has them a mere three games out of first place in the AL Central.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 14 May 2018
• That’s a ton of production at minimal cost, which made up for the $80 million already lost from the machinations of past payroll maneuvers.
  — John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
• As more gray-suited performers arrived — and started their intricate machinations of entrances, exits, struts and poses — the magic of the show became clear.
  — Erik Ernst, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• The darkness of the moment is, instead, buried in the machinations of the characters themselves—in their moral and social aptitude, which is far less mighty than these characters seem to realize.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 29 May 2018
• But Pillars of Eternity 2 justifies it with endless charm to chuckle at and machinations to unravel.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 4 June 2018
• Maeve can escape any death threat by getting her mind in the right gear, and Dolores is ruthless, cunning, and granted various advantages through Ford's machinations.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• Thus, this scandal isn't a machination of the Kris Jenner Industrial Komplex.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
• But again, Loeb knows a thing or two about the machinations of space.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• Still, these machinations did not earn him a place in the Sardi’s hall of fame.
  — Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2018
• It’s always been part of the mix to debate the machinations behind the Beards.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• Such Cold War machinations might seem like the stuff of a bygone era.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• This places him at the center of the regime’s highest-risk machination.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• The rights to the game were subject to byzantine contracts and agreements and machinations and bribery.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• As Villeneuve says, the film focuses more on the machinations of the Bene Gesserit.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2024
• Were you drawn to the way this show depicts the inner machination and office politics of the CIA?
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022
• And if the brand-new mother doesn’t want to participate in the machination?
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• The whole machination is pretty much based on a semblance of supply and demand.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• The machinations are par for the course at Naftogaz, which transports billions of dollars of natural gas through and around Ukraine each year.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• When the action pivots to the machinations of the professors under Hank, the pilot loses its head of steam.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• The legal machinations haven’t led to big victories in court so far, and in fact Thomas More’s efforts have sometimes drawn ridicule from the bench.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 1 Mar. 2023
• Once the engine reaches 3000 rpm or so, the four-banger's machinations are less than melodious.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2023
• Despite the roster and playing rotation machinations, Dallas jumped ahead by as many as 15 points in the first half, led for much of the second half and took the game to the wire.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• There’s also a bunch of plotting and dark machinations going on.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 20 July 2019
• If the absence of Succession has left a dark and gaping hole in your heart, formerly filled by the epic, desperate machinations of the one-percent: tune in.
  — Vogue, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024