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Meanings of contrive in English
Usage of contrive in English
1
If you can so contrive it, let him live in the country.
2
And, indeed, it is the best I can contrive in this house.
3
It was a nicely appointed dinner, the best the chef could contrive.
4
The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
5
They will be safer there than in any hiding-place you can contrive.
6
At the Kutub he had to contrive his own dissipations and excesses.
7
He would contrive some way of giving his cousin back the money.
8
For the Humans have to plot and contrive and worry, whatever happens.
9
Passion can always contrive to clothe itself in beauty, strips itself splendid.
10
Suppose, he thought, I could contrive a meeting with Satan, the Archfiend.
11
I had to contrive a bit, and manage the waves a little.
12
With your permission, I retire to contrive the arrest of this spy.
13
His thought was that he must now contrive the escape of Cornelia.
14
Finally he determined to contrive some easy and quick way of printing.
15
I was wondering how I should contrive to speak to you privately.
16
I should think you'd contrive a very original sort of a place.
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