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Meanings of contrive in English

Portuguese
formular
Catalan
formular
Spanish
formular

To use the intellect to plan or design something.

        formular
        Portuguese
        planejar

        To make or work out a plan for; devise.

              planejar
              Spanish
              proyectar

              Put or send forth.

                    proyectar
                    Usage of contrive in English
                    1
                    If you can so contrive it, let him live in the country.
                    Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
                    2
                    And, indeed, it is the best I can contrive in this house.
                    Come Rack! Come Rope!
                    3
                    It was a nicely appointed dinner, the best the chef could contrive.
                    The House of Toys
                    4
                    The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
                    The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
                    5
                    They will be safer there than in any hiding-place you can contrive.
                    The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story
                    6
                    At the Kutub he had to contrive his own dissipations and excesses.
                    The Flaw in the Sapphire
                    7
                    He would contrive some way of giving his cousin back the money.
                    Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
                    8
                    For the Humans have to plot and contrive and worry, whatever happens.
                    Mufti
                    9
                    Passion can always contrive to clothe itself in beauty, strips itself splendid.
                    The New Machiavelli
                    10
                    Suppose, he thought, I could contrive a meeting with Satan, the Archfiend.
                    Complete Books of Blood
                    11
                    I had to contrive a bit, and manage the waves a little.
                    At the Back of the North Wind
                    12
                    With your permission, I retire to contrive the arrest of this spy.
                    Beverly of Graustark
                    13
                    His thought was that he must now contrive the escape of Cornelia.
                    A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
                    14
                    Finally he determined to contrive some easy and quick way of printing.
                    Famous Men of the Middle Ages
                    15
                    I was wondering how I should contrive to speak to you privately.
                    Poor Miss Finch
                    16
                    I should think you'd contrive a very original sort of a place.
                    The Precipice: A Novel
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                    Contrive through the time
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