How to Use machination in a Sentence

machination

noun
  • All of these machinations have been so alive in my head for so long.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
  • Now there’s all of these machinations over what is the strike zone.
    — Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
  • For all its machinations, the track works.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2025
  • But again, Loeb knows a thing or two about the machinations of space.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
  • In real life, are those machinations in play?
    — William Earl, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But one of Sturm’s lineup machinations did work out in the first.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Yet the movie’s plot machinations and brooding tone are at times a little too clever.
    — Pat Padua, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Still, these machinations did not earn him a place in the Sardi’s hall of fame.
    — Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2018
  • This places him at the center of the regime’s highest-risk machination.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • Such Cold War machinations might seem like the stuff of a bygone era.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Lots of machinations to come on that front for Denver's coaching staff.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026
  • There’s also a bunch of plotting and dark machinations going on.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 20 July 2019
  • Tell her that her relationship machinations are above your pay grade.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The whole machination is pretty much based on a semblance of supply and demand.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Others would exhort that the end result is what counts, not how the inner machinations work.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The rights to the game were subject to byzantine contracts and agreements and machinations and bribery.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And if the brand-new mother doesn’t want to participate in the machination?
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Then come the waiver claims and more machinations before Week 1.
    — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Now, we are left with nothing, only the machinations of the academy.
    — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • Payroll machinations aside, the Angels still gave away two good prospects for nothing.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Humankind doesn’t need to fully grasp the inner machinations.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • At the Chandler rally, one of her fans told me that deep-state machinations must have been to blame for the result.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The spycraft involves all the machinations to keep the winners secret.
    — Petula Dvorak, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • But that may only mark the start of a new phase in the conflict, one defined more by the machinations of foreign powers.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The teams may again meet this weekend in a match-up that will again stoke the political machinations between the foes.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The grandeur of the show in general is almost like a machination of Andrew's brain.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The slow machinations of the House and its levers of power often don’t translate to voters.
    — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Read on for their views on players to watch this year, the state of the political machinations at the top of tennis, and more.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024

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