Sample sentences for the GRE study word machinations

SENTENCE:To save my poor, innocent, trusting boy from the [machinations] of any other girl there are no lengths to which I would not go.|The Importance of Being Earnest|Oscar Wilde|modern
SENTENCE:I gasped for breath, and throwing myself on the body, I exclaimed, "Have my murderous [machinations] deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of lif.|Frankenstein|Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley|modern
SENTENCE:While thus suffering under bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul, and given over to the [machinations] of his deadliest enemy, the Reverend Mr.|The Scarlet Letter|Nathaniel Hawthorne|modern
SENTENCE:"No, I only suspect he has warned the queen against some fresh [machinations] of the cardinal..|The Three Musketeers|Alexandre Dumas, Pere|old
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WORD:maculated
1. tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile -- (make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man")
2. foul, befoul, defile, maculate -- (spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it")