contrive
verb (used with object)
to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.
contrivable
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a word derived from
contrive.
Example Sentences
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Nothing contrivable by human invention could be more formidably effective than that, in banishing imaginary ailments and in closing the entrances against sub-sequent applicants of their breed.
From Christian Science by Mark Twain
Why it is the most ludicrous spectacle, the most inconsistent and incongruous spectacle, contrivable by even the most diseased imagination.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
These things, considered together, it will hence appear how a perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable.
From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by John Phin
No machine yet contrived, or hereafter contrivable, will ever equal the fine machinery of the human fingers.
From The Two Paths by John Ruskin
It is not a thing to be hired for money, nor contrivable on any wholesale plan.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
