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How to use contrivances in a sentence

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They work, they may even work admirably well, but there is no sense that these contrivances are the result of an omnipotent designer.
All of them had various handy contrivances devised by their owner which saved toil.
A big part of it has to do with lame plot contrivances that slow the movie down rather than speeding it up.
Its pulsing inventiveness charges the most absurd contrivances with life, just as opera should.
They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances.
Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels.
Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation.
These contrivances that I declare unto thee are legitimate means of kingcraft. They are not reckoned as methods fraught with deceit.
While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there.
It is strictly prohibited to disable the safety contrivances or to change the way they work.
This presents an obstacle to the organization of Fisheries Associations overcome only through contrivances to ensure voluntary compliance.
There is no assemblage without territory, territoriality and reterritorialisation that comprises all kinds of contrivances.
The temple has many traps and contrivances which are built in order to fool one's enemies.
While lyric poetry in English has not been without its private contrivances or tropes of conquest, for the most part its ontology has been one of engagement.
Much ink has been spilled over the wonky science and plot contrivances of Interstellar.
Particularly annoying among the record's contrivances is its frivolous use of drum machines, which skip and stutter when the songs call for simple beats.
Within its limits the image blends two main features of Darwin's world, its astonishingly evolved, beautiful, sexual and reproductive contrivances and its deathliness.
And the play's contrivances have an alienating effect.
Recognition of this may induce a sense of humility so that the Health Care Ethics Committee acknowledges that its deliberations and recommendations are, like all human contrivances, prone to error.
You live simply, without the contrivances of our modern life.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. filcher then went on to point out the properties and capabilities of the rooms, and also their mechanical contrivances.
Every one of these can be paralleled amongst the many neat contrivances of wind-borne fruits and seeds.
It was estimated that this iron-clad vessel contained at least forty patentable contrivances.
But the most ingenious of all contrivances for finding the depth of the sea is Siemen's bathometer, a very recent invention.
Match boxes are collectable, and collectors of fire-making and lighting contrivances often include a few old matches.
Prudence with them is a matter of thrill like the rest of sublunary contrivances.
He studied also the contrivances of certain insectivorous plants, such as the Drosera and the dionaea, to seize their prey.
The will-power is the same, but the mechanical contrivances for its transmission are wanting.
Phil must have a steamer chair, plenty of clothes, wraps, and contrivances.
And it is just when work becomes difficult that contrivances and hints are most fruitfully evolved.
All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs.
Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, notwithstanding his timid contrivances.
Some seemed of black metal, seemed contrivances or machines of some sort.
Distrustfulness, and carking cares, and contrivances for time to come.
The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete.
The second handling-machine was now completed, and was busied in serving one of the novel contrivances the big machine had brought.
Poyser stood Hetty, and Adam was again beguiled from calculations and contrivances into dreams and hopes.
This is the last time I trust myself to one of these paleolithic contrivances.
And as for knowledge, and contrivances, and manufactures, there's a many things as we're a fine sight behind 'em in.
These are the deceitful contrivances of oligarchical legislators.
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