Examples of 'contrivance' in a sentence
Meaning of "contrivance"
contrivance (noun): Something created with skill or cleverness, often to serve a particular purpose or achieve a desired effect. It can also refer to a device or invention
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- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
How to use "contrivance" in a sentence
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Is not your contrivance not enough great.
Been so mechanized and twisted by soulless contrivance.
My contrivance is for the sake of ameliorative mankind living.
Every theatrical performance is a contrivance by its very nature.
The contrivance would not have worked anyway.
Been so mechanised and twisted by soulless contrivance.
The entire contrivance looks just like a harp.
Because this whole marriage was a contrivance.
No special mechanical contrivance to prevent the stigma receiving.
All is by rule and calculated contrivance.
It is not just a contrivance concocted for urgent needs.
A new baby seems like a contrivance.
That is only a contrivance we have invented.
And even that designation was only a recent contrivance.
This contrivance of nature is easily conceived.
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The price mechanism is nothing but contrivance interference.
Contrivance has replaced spontaneity.
There was therefore a room for contrivance in this point.
Such a contrivance would certainly.
Except that the trajectory is a contrivance.
No mechanical contrivance can compete with the voice of a living creature.
This is definitely a mechanical contrivance.
With a contrivance made in the machine shop and smuggled out.
Why do not you shallow a horse pill size contrivance.
The contrivance described is thus particularly simple and reliable in function.
This could be described as contrivance.
To the contrivance in question.
Worked by a simple mechanical contrivance.
A first contrivance of a metallurgical nature concerns the composition of the peritectic steels.
He thought the whole thing was just a contrivance that.
The present invention is a mechanical contrivance integrated into the closure of a sharps container.
Römer indicates several typical examples of political exploitation and contrivance.
This wonderful contrivance is.
Luther went on to say that the authority of the pope was a recent contrivance.
The dimensions of the waistband serve as a contrivance for streamlining waist measurements.
To drive you who was running about into this contrivance.
Reeks of contrivance.
Any fool has more power if he has the means of acquiring the necessary contrivance.
But that corporation was nothing more than a contrivance to the end last described.
By a mechanical contrivance the throne followed Solomon wherever he wished to go.
They think that the energy crisis is a contrivance of big business.
No human contrivance can prevent these Putanas from obtaining possession of their pulpits.
What a flagrant contrivance.
It was my contrivance this matter of the Town Hall.
Satan is a religious contrivance.
Initially it felt like a contrivance but eventually we felt more and more like a team.
The artificial things are seen to owe their being to human contrivance or to forethought.
A more blatant contrivance I have yet to see.
Coincidence becomes contrivance.
The contrivance works ; the sister is sent.
