contrivance in a sentence

Examples

1. Debts to society come due in a spectrum of contrivances.
2. He's contrived too, but what a contrivance!
3. Another section is given over to amazing and even bizarre mechanical contrivances.
4. So is the online computer book catalog, a marvel of contrivance.
5. Binoche has said that she prefers natural beauty to contrivances.
6. The program's many contrivances are sometimes amusing and often puzzling.
7. The problem was not of our contrivance or our doing,
8. Instead, they have resorted to all manner of contrivance.
9. Contrivance, perhaps, but not a particularly expensive one.
10. Beyond the plot contrivances, the two actresses are sweetly in synch.