Sentence examples for were concocted from from inspiring English sources
Their bombs were concocted from inexpensive everyday items whose purchase set off no alarms: pressure cookers, nails and ball bearings, gunpowder from fireworks and remote controls for toys.
They read from an appropriately antique-book-styled ketubah, a traditional Jewish marriage contract, and their reception dinner centerpieces were concocted from classic books.
The group's fighters in Hawr Rajab were armed with AK-47s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and a seemingly endless supply of homemade improvised explosive devices (I.E.D.'s), many of which were concocted from urea fertilizer and nitric acid.
He embarked on a "10-day dieta" in Peru, in which ayahuasca brews were concocted from, among other things, chacruna leaves, following the traditional methods of the Shipibo tribe.
As banking became increasing central to Florence's extraordinary prosperity a range of financial instruments were concocted — from internationally traded bills of exchange used to profit from currency differences and from time lapses before the cashing-in of the bills, to notional "gifts" and insurance policies — in order to legitimize the earning of interest by those who had capital to lend.
They are concocted from comprehensive data, samples and educated guesswork, and then gradually refined.
The bubble solution is concocted from six types of concentrate that Yang designs and manufactures ("to create varying viscosities and densities," he said).
Pants looked as though they had been concocted from the gritty sand, while over them floated airy veils of fabric, worn casually like transparent tunics.
He preferred English, and his placeless accent was concocted from the shards of his oddly assembled cultural memory: part Beatles, part MovieFone, part Crocodile Dundee.
It's magnificently potent stuff, this meth, whose crudest versions are concocted from a mash of over-the-counter cold pills and flesh-eating bulk industrial chemicals.
Calcutta's famous snack is concocted from a choice of spicy fillings topped with chutney and rolled inside a paratha coated with scrambled egg.
