“While the trundle wheel may seem a crude contrivance, it worked with great accuracy.”

“These are constructed of wire, and they appear to be a useful contrivance for facilitating and hastening the process of filtration.”

“It was an ingenious contrivance by which he could gain all the advantages, and escape the censures of the learned Lecturer.”

“Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric.”

“The contriver behind the innovative app revolutionized the way people manage their finances.”

“He is now one of the most talented and respected songwriters in the music industry, and a contriver of 123 Marseille!”

“Petty was a most indefatigable contriver, inventor, and organizer of industry.”

“They work, they may even work admirably well, but there is no sense that these contrivances are the result of an omnipotent designer.”

“They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances.”

“Its pulsing inventiveness charges the most absurd contrivances with life, just as opera should.”

“One problem is that the contrivers mistook their art for a science.”

“Somers was encouraged to name the contrivers of his bewitchment.”