Contrive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRIVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to devise
• create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice
• manage to do something foolish or create an undesirable situation
• make happen
• To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
• To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
• make or work out a plan for; devise
• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
• put or send forth

Words related to CONTRIVE

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Words that contain CONTRIVE

contrived15 contriver14 contrives14 contrivers15 uncontrived17 contrivement19 contrivements20

How to use CONTRIVE in a sentence

• If you try for seven years, I believe, you will never contrive to make your pebbles lie about in your mud, as they lie about in every pit in the boulder clay.
• When I saw light, it was time to contrive what I should do.
• And I prefer to like myself, which I contrive to do at intervals.
• After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
• Therefore, while doing nothing from motives of interest you still contrive that all that you do should be acceptable.
• I mean to contrive it so that you can get out of difficulty yourself.
• He suddenly seemed capable, an official, a man to contrive, to direct, to get things done.
• There was scarcely an individual of whom he did not contrive to inquire, from Dr.
• Friday would not do, as their Lordships went out of town on that day, and Monday was equally inconvenient, as they could not contrive to get back by then.
• So soon as he returned to London his preparations for this travel must begin, he must plot out the men to whom he would go, and so contrive that also he would go round the world.
• A dreadful thought possessed me that if he could only contrive to hit me with his face all would be over.
• It was quite easy to contrive and work when she was absent, but not so easy to keep from talking about the thing in her presence.
• He hoped that, at least, they might thus be encouraged secretly to detach a small squadron, which he had little doubt some of his brave fellows would soon contrive to pick up.
• It will hold twelve hundred students but more than that number contrive to hear the lectures.
• After such fashion let us, then, if we can contrive to do so, regard the Italians during their subjection to the Church and Austria.
• How did he contrive to put off the fatal moment? 13.
• At each corner of the fortress, instead of a tower or watch-house, they contrive to have a tall tree, which they ascend to reconnoitre or fire from.
• How she was to contrive this, the girl did not know in the least, but she knew that the thing would have to be done.
• If I could catch the clerk who takes them to the post, and contrive to read the directions, I should save money.
• After the father and mother had grieved some time, they thought that as they could contrive no other way to live, they must somehow get rid of their children.
• This chief added, that if they would delay their march for some time, he would contrive a plan for delivering Quizquiz into their hands.
• I was going to wish you had some little place that you could call your own, but, I profess I do not know you well enough to contrive any one system of life that would please you.
• After which I could see to it that Mademoiselle Angele was brought along too as quickly as influential relatives could contrive.
• If, however, they desire to spend only a small sum, they must take some trouble about it, and must contrive how to produce a good result with simple and even common materials.
• Somehow, boys contrive to be hungry at almost all times of the day, even without the stimulus of pulling three hours at an oar.
• His thought was that he must now contrive the escape of Cornelia.
• The piazza seems to be arranged to make the most of this situation, and Ted thinks it impossible to contrive a more charming arrangement for hall, parlor and dining-room.
• She had some apprehensions that he might contrive to make his appearance at Vellenaux at a time it was least expected or desired by either herself or Sir Ralph Coleman.
• The fishermen, nevertheless, contrive to climb them for the sake of the eggs they find there.
• You ask how I contrive to earn money, seeing that all my pictures are still in my own possession.

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