I had concocted so many, and so few had come to fruition.

He could not even think of one of those fine phrases which nowadays he usually concocted so easily.

A wacky plan is concocted so that Nai Nai's family can return to China to say goodbye without arousing her suspicion.

Savedra wanted to scream, to laugh until she wept; her mother and Thea Jsutien between them couldn't have concocted so clever a scheme.

"Is it possible, sir," he began, in lucid Johnsonian, "that you can concoct so delicious an entree in so few minutes?