Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: concocting
IPA transcription: [kənk'ɑktɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • Down in her rebellious, insulted heart she was concocting all sorts of plans for revenge.
  • "Begging master's indulgence," Conseil replied, "but our friend Ned is concocting a kangaroo pie that will be the eighth wonder!"
  • Usanga had been continually interrupting their brief conversation in an attempt to compel the girl to translate it to him, for he feared that they were concocting some plan to thwart him, and to quiet and appease him, she told him that the Englishman was merely bidding her farewell and wishing her good luck.
  • Nevertheless, I am not the husband of my great, great, grandmother; and this is a reflection which affords me infinite relief,--but I am the husband of Madame Lalande--of Madame Stephanie Lalande--with whom my good old relative, besides making me her sole heir when she dies--if she ever does--has been at the trouble of concocting me a match.