contrive
IPA: kʌntrˈaɪv
verb
- To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise
- To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
- To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
- (obsolete, transitive) To spend (time, or a period).
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Examples of "contrive" in Sentences
- The former endings sound contrived.
- They contrived to finish the project.
- The terrorist threat sounds contrived.
- The people contrived to save the property.
- He was supposed to contrive the achievement.
- The organization contrive the people's minds.
- The whole thing is contrived and contradictory.
- 'em, an 'contrive 'em, both sides on 'em, all an' similar!
- Do not the young men contrive great wealth what of their pack-straps and paddles?
- Now I must turn it on the lathe of fate and contrive from it a weapon to save all.
- Had I understood the means by which I could contrive my own death, I would gladly have used them.
- “If you could perhaps contrive to sit next to Miss Aberfoyle, that would be most wise,” Miss Milhouse was saying now.
- Isaac must contrive the same story many years later with Rebecca to save his life from Abimelech king of the Philistines.
- Fathers are fathers of the worst sort, such as contrive to keep their children in a perpetual state of infancy, that they may exercise perpetual and absolute dominion over them.
- I expect that the gate will be secured and that I will have to contrive some way to get through it, but when I press my hand tentatively against one side of the iron scrollwork, hinges creak.
- Nor could it be otherwise that the young men contrive great wealth; but they sit by night over the cards, and it passes from them, and they speak harsh words one to another, and in anger blows are struck, and there is bad blood between them.