How to Use machination in a Sentence

machination

noun

• In The Loop was a parody of the machinations that led to the Iraq War.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2018
• But again, Loeb knows a thing or two about the machinations of space.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
• The focus was on people, the machinations and ploys of city dwellers.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Still, these machinations did not earn him a place in the Sardi’s hall of fame.
  — Town & Country, 30 Nov. 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
• 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
• After a while this starts to feel like dithering, or the machinations of soap opera.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• The rights to the game were subject to byzantine contracts and agreements and machinations and bribery.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• Yet the movie’s plot machinations and brooding tone are at times a little too clever.
  — Pat Padua, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But Blackstone’s machinations seem to have broken the spirit, rather than the letter, of the rules.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• The handling of Kane's injury and the cap machinations ruffled some feathers around the league.
  — Chris Hine, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• The slow machinations of the House and its levers of power often don’t translate to voters.
  — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The grandeur of the show in general is almost like a machination of Andrew's brain.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2018
• True enough, but even after all the machinations the Dodgers were able to put the lead in the hands of the best reliever in baseball, Kenley Jansen.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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 spycraft involves all the machinations to keep the winners secret.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Still, fans are hopeful that Arya and/or Sansa will wise up to Littlefinger's machinations and turn on him.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 26 Aug. 2017
• The whole machination is pretty much based on a semblance of supply and demand.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• Now, we are left with nothing, only the machinations of the academy.
  — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
• 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
• Eric—separated from his wife and in the throes of a midlife crisis—wins a promotion and gets caught up in toxic C-suite machinations.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024