A device or control that is very useful for a particular job.
The act of devising something.
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.
Any improvised arrangement for temporary use.
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Examples for "dodge "
Examples for "dodge "
1 Of course, there was no way for them to dodge the rain.
2 The men in the place were obliged to dodge the flying sticks.
3 You can try to dodge the thing, but good luck with that.
4 And they wouldn't be able to just dodge onto some uninhabited island.
5 I was able to dodge its impact by ducking behind the breakwater.
1 Use what stratagem you please; make it the experiment of your life.
2 He dared not extend the stratagem to the apartment of the Queen.
3 Concealment or stratagem could no longer avail; the chase was fairly up.
4 When the booty had been shared he put in use his stratagem .
5 Silk listened, wondering what was going on, and dreading some new stratagem .
1 There was no difference in the construction or contrivance of the trap.
2 This simple contrivance was a great convenience, and came into general use.
3 A similar contrivance has arisen out of the necessities of deep-sea exploration.
4 The water was heated by an electric contrivance in the bathroom itself.
5 Demonstrator refuses to use Lindbergh's name to be garbled by the contrivance .
6 Even then they could scarcely resist the auto-hypnotic powers of the contrivance .
7 By this ingenious contrivance he gave the history of the last age.
8 The Allobroges and Volturcius are arrested by the contrivance of Cicero, XLV.
9 I see-allthis money-makingis a contrivance to keep me in Sydney.
10 Fear not, Master Warner; no further harm shall chance to thy contrivance .
11 Or is the identity of Mr Golightly too much of a contrivance ?
12 The joy of these little miracles of contrivance had never been hers.
13 I crept cautiously along the floor, on tip-toe, to examine the contrivance .
14 Many things which are difficult in themselves, are easily effected by contrivance .
15 This ingenious contrivance was applied by Mr. Everett to the paying-out machinery.
16 The next was a remarkable contrivance - amechanicaltraveller to go on legs.
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