How to Use cahoot in a Sentence

cahoot

noun
  • And the time that Jake puts in around here, those guys are always in cahoots with the plan.
    — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 1 Oct. 2018
  • The idea that the Night King and Bran are in cahoots isn't too far-fetched.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Gruden might have been the driving force, but the two were in cahoots at the start of this strange journey.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But the question was, were the company higher-ups in cahoots with it or not.
    — Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • In the mix, there's the conniving soon-to-be stepmom and the in-cahoots household help.
    — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 11 Dec. 2019
  • In contrast, Nora and her foul-mouthed grandma are often in cahoots.
    — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Some tribespeople are often found to be in cahoots with drug smugglers and cartels to stash or traffic drugs.
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Muggers, sometimes in cahoots with cab drivers, would appear suddenly to demand the belongings of clients trapped in back seats with no way out.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2019
  • Opiate addiction has ruined tens of thousands of lives, and no surprise politicians in cahoots with their trial-lawyer friends are trying to cash in on the scourge.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Sometimes parents are in cahoots, receiving a kickback for signing false attendance records.
    — Ryan Faircloth, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Love can be unpredictable though revealing these days as your planetary ruler Venus gets into cahoots with Uranus.
    — Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Apr. 2016
  • How did Jimmy and Loraine fall into cahoots with Lady Caterham?
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Particularly since the police were allegedly in cahoots with the rampaging mob.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Kucinich said that past coziness between Cordray and gun rights organizations shows Cordray was in cahoots with the gun lobby.
    — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Amid all the backlash, Schlossberg also was kicked out of his Madison Avenue workspace, because who really wants to be in cahoots with a racist?
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 18 May 2018
  • One of the biggest weapons Beijing wields is popular nationalism, which often works in cahoots with government coercion.
    — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The cartoon The Boondocks even devoted an entire episode to this theme, showing Coulter working in cahoots with a liberal foe.
    — Susie Meister, Vox, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Like all populist leaders, Trump claims that the only reason for the country’s problems is an inept or self-serving elite in cahoots with ethnic or religious minorities.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
  • In cahoots with television interests, the Pac-12 conference has made a habit of frustrating football fans with night-game scheduling.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • In short, my teachers and my parents were in cahoots, the message being that homework was important, homework was good, and schooling extended to the home, where my education continued unabated.
    — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Here and there across the Arab world, private VIP services, often in cahoots with official security chiefs, sell fast-track passage to bypass the rigmarole faced by hoi polloi.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • The Fourth Estate's fly-on-the-wall, nuts and bolts look at how the sausage gets made has the potential to undercut outlandish right wing conspiracy theories about corrupt, liberal journalists in cahoots to poison the sausage.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 25 May 2018
  • The hapless race car driver who pretended not to speak English has been in cahoots with the actress the entire time to get revenge for his father's racing accident that took his legs, which happened because of Malcolm cutting safety corners.
    — Andrea Reiher, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • The arrest is another blow for the small West Miami-Dade city beset by the arrests of public officials in recent years, many of them stemming from a twisted relationship with a tow company that worked in cahoots with cops to shake down motorists.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
  • Long before news broke of lawsuits alleging a widespread State Farm bad faith scheme to wrongly deny Oklahoma hail claims, Coppermark’s petition accused insurance companies and the insurance department of working in cahoots.
    — J.c. Hallman, Oklahoman, 10 Feb. 2026

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