concoct

Example Sentences

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Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

We live and breathe stories: We concoct them; we relate them; we react to them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Need someone to take the first steps on Niflheim to inhale the planet’s toxic air so the lab can concoct a vaccine?

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025

The man is not a natural broadcaster, and he is not able to concoct the synapse-flaring secret sauce that makes everyone from Rachel Maddow to Jesse Watters so watchable.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2025

Her girlfriends had sought to concoct dates for her; she was widely encouraged to make use of her beauty and to emerge from the shell of her apparent shyness.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson