Today’s word was ‘connived.’

We make the Rules up as we go along, and one of the earliest rules we made up was that we must use the word in our sentences as it is presented. This is the first time we’ve been presented with a past tense word. But that’s how it goes.

Connived is also the first word whose 1st definition ca. now is decidedly different from its 1st def. in 1892.

In 1892, connive meant ‘to wink, to open and close one eye rapidly.’

You can see how this changed.

Here are our sentences:

Oh. We had guests who came out the farm and who will be shooting deer. They joined in.

In an effort to avoid the embarrassment of a sub-par sentence in front of the scholarly crowd, Nick connived the rules of the asking Margaret for advice.

–Nick

Saint’s head coach Sean  Peyton was suspended all last season because he and other coaches connived to injure opposing players.

–Chris

Good Lord. A. Leland. If you continue to write run on sentences, … .

Despite the fact that [Miss M] and [Daugher C] connived to … . … . … .

ARE YOUR KIDDING ME? You want me to type that ROS into my blog?

Moving on.

Margaret told me to leave her out of it– while I connived to have the best sentence.

–Daughter C

Corporate profiteers and statists politicians together connived a plot to deprive citizens of a once-free Republic of more of their individual liberties.

–Mr. Big Food

With a wink and a nod, they connived to allow his unconstitutional abuse of power.