Examples of 'contrivances' in a sentence

Meaning of "contrivances"

contrivance (noun) - a plan or scheme, usually in a clever or cunning way, to achieve a specific purpose or goal
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Contrivances of synthetic rubber for contraceptive purposes.
But we have other contrivances that are even.
Later these were replaced by ingenious mechanical contrivances.
Of such contrivances are not built good citizens.
It is much more urgent than those contrivances.
Appearance of forced contrivances for that purpose.
Contrivances of rubber for prophylactic purposes.
These tales are admirable contrivances in their kind.
The contrivances described above eliminate this drawback.
They were more like mathematical contrivances or sophisticated hypotheses.
Contrivances of rubber for the prevention of the transmission of disease.
To vent his wrath on mechanical contrivances.
Mechanical contrivances with discrete states.
Capitalists who carry a lot of money have safety contrivances.
Mechanical contrivances with discrete statesEdit.

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There are little contrivances.
Contrivances made from natural rubber for contraceptive purposes.
To vent his wrath on mechanical contrivances of an age he abhors.
All of the claimed studies of such an effect are total contrivances.
They are only convenient contrivances to live a comfortable life in society.
Safety device and tire construction for vehicles or other contrivances.
It seems like a lot of contrivances to keep the story going.
Cassiodorus also tells us a good deal about his library contrivances.
The contrivances can only be used in the proximity of an electrical power source.
There is a lot to enjoy here but the script contrivances rankle.
The terrifying contrivances frighten the gang beyond their wits and they attempt to flee.
This is not to deny that biology is filled with marvelous contrivances.
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects.
Most extraordinary contrivances.
Sophisticated contrivances are not part of the cuisine at Le Montrachet.
The sugarcane producers even employed mechanical contrivances to extract juices from it.
Several contrivances have been made to solve the above-mentioned problem.
Cousin Randolph is very opposed to contrivances of that sort.
Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets of 20 meters or more across.
I was instructed about in Chicago All new contrivances.
Madam, and such unsubtle contrivances are beneath you.
However, there is always a final scene in these plots and contrivances.
Transportation by means of bulky contrivances is giving way to direct mass-transference.
In a flash - they create world altering contrivances.
Therefore, a variety of pharmaceutical contrivances has so far been made to avoid the troubles.
Several contrivances have been made so far to solve the above-mentioned problem.
Machines, equipment or other contrivances designed for.
Could any thing scatter our riches, it would be such impolitic contrivances.
However, such contrivances are generally complicated, thereby increasing the cost of manufacturing the packaging.
In fact, the plot is full of contrivances.
By the 21st century technological contrivances are powerfully influencing the lives of Canadians.
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for.
Read summary of chapter 6, Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen.
All pre-twentieth-century precursors had in common that they were mechanical contrivances.
Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets of 20 m or more across.

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