Sentences with contrive
con·trive
C c - The oil companies were accused of contriving a shortage of gasoline to justify price increases. [VERB noun]
- We therefore had to contrive a very large black-out curtain. [VERB noun]
- You want to whoop, hiss and laugh out loud at these idiotic and nasty writers and the way they contrive to ruin their own and others' lives.
- It wouldn't work if we tried to contrive our sound.
- The orchestra contrived to produce some of its best playing for years. [VERB to-infinitive]
- They somehow contrived to lose tens of thousands of applications. [VERB to-infinitive]
- And still contrive to make him look a fool.
- He contrived to make them meet
- He contrived a new mast for the boat
- To contrive a way to help
- He contrived to get in
- The author contrived a clever plot.
- He contrived to gain their votes.