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How to use contriving in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
And since I'm making melodrama, contriving a plot is hardly a betrayal of that.
Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of a Munster championship day?
Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of the championship day?
He briefly tried his hand at furniture design and excels at contriving quirky contraptions and uncanny objects, some of which find their way into elaborate environments.
Your progress may be interrupted by some unheralded and unforeseen event not of your own contriving.
Ever since it was founded, the EU has been contriving to destroy those resources.
This means contriving, within two years, to get an additional 17,600 pupils into school and concurrently to build 122 additional classrooms.
Recognising the fluidity and occasional capriciousness of perception, Leonardo delighted in it, contriving not only rebuses or visual puns, but also optical illusions.
The security measures taken ensure that there are enormous problems in contriving these scenarios, if the starting material is a substantial consignment on a dedicated ship.
Some of this is along familiar lines academics collaborating with ever more foreign colleagues and sabbatical-seekers contriving to spend ever more time abroad.
By contriving a cool and a different casino online slot game with a bowling alley topic Microgaming has exceeded competitions once more, in this ferociously competitor casino industry.
In addition to contriving a versatile documentation method, we must consider how to obtain the enormous manpower, time, and budget that the identification of each and every element would require.
In addition, Regina's Pasqua Hospital was contriving to shut its emergency department nightlong due to a shortage of doctors.
At the time of the Italian madrigal's fullest flowering, German composers derived much inspiration from the south while still contriving to retain something of their earlier heritage.
But now they re in Government, Mr Pyne is suddenly equivocating, suggesting there could be changes, and somehow contriving to blame someone else.
Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
Examples from Classical Literature
And this was a special job, of his own contriving, and of considerable novelty.
And first he joined the Latins to the Romans, contriving the matter in this fashion.
To Wauna it was a revelation of magnificence in nature beyond her contriving.
To these scanty means of improvement, she added another of her own contriving.
The coroner had acceded to Markham's proposition and was contriving to protract the session.
Such a contriving and racking of brains as Polly and Ben set up after this!
Does he keep him in mind years and years and go on contriving miseries for him?
The adjudging of the arms of Achilles takes place, and Odysseus, by the contriving of Athena, gains them.
And so I was contriving to do all I could to guard against the latter.
It is plain enough to me that certain people are contriving for his ruin.
And all I know about you is that you are always contriving some devilry.
After much contriving, she secured an introduction to that young man.
She may have had no particular feeling for him, but succumbed to his wish from propinquity or idleness, to find then that she was powerless in a snare of her own contriving.
Now, I look at you, sir, I shouldn't wonder if you might be planning and contriving to have a pleasant home of your own, one of these days, when you're tired of all this work.
Your head cook is always baking, and stewing, and roasting, and rolling out paste, and contriving one dish or another, which he imagines may be to my liking.
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