Contrive Verb 1 2 3, Past and Past Participle Form Tense of Contrive V1 V2 V3
contrive
Meanings;
- Create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.(transitive verb)
| Verb(V1) | Past Tense(V2) | Past Participle(V3) |
| contrive | contrived | contrived |
| Verb – es(Ves) | Verb – ing(Ving) |
| contrives | contriving |
Synonyms
bring about, engineer, cause to happen, manufacture, orchestrate, stage-manage, create,
Example Sentences with contrive
- Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system.
- What the hell are you getting so upset about?’ he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrive amusement. ‘I thought you didn’t believe in God.
- A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.
- I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive.
- Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it’s based on femininity.
- For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
