Example Sentences
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Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then something happened which would never happen in a well-contrived Oppenheim novel�the Nazis swarmed into northern France.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are so many well-contrived foils, to give greater brilliancy to the diamonds of a comfortable cot, and the entire consciousness of being no longer exposed to an untimely summons on deck.
From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore
He had a sumptuous and well-contrived palace near the shore, with curious gardens adjoining, and fair prospects, both to the water and up the country.
It was a well-contrived trap—boards covered with earth—a surface supported by props which had been pulled away by ropes.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
