contrive
verb (used with object)
to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.
am contriving
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present progressiveof contrive (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am contriving how to stop up my grate with bricks.
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
The secret and constant purposes of my own heart towards you, and with what further ties of affinity, I am contriving to bind you still faster to me; I at present forbear to recount.
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Gordon, Thomas
