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contrived sentence examples

  • Contrived to miss chance after chance.
  • Contrived ending to send the viewers out with a warm feeling?
  • Beneath the giza plateau lies a secret tomb, cunningly contrived, that has remained undisturbed for nearly five thousand years.
  • Your novels are without fussy, complicated plots, where nothing seems overly contrived.
  • Contrived to lose 20 wickets in a day at a ground where the pitches are renowned for being batsmen friendly.
  • Contrived declarations.
  • Ah, it was a deep, deep satire, and most ingeniously contrived.
  • How do you design these magic moments without them appearing contrived?
  • Contrived never to let me see it in its entirety.
  • Contrived, terrible joke led up to the title of the next new song, ' mokey ' .
  • An added bonus for the paris audience was provided by some cleverly contrived animated film, which provoked considerable laughter.
  • The passion of the singing can also sound contrived.
  • Contrived wicked plots to gain the pieces of silver of the potter's field.
  • The professor claims to be able to tell which sequences are truly random, and which have been artificially contrived.
  • Comments few riders take this corner correctly, for even the right line feels contrived.
  • Contrived situation, especially the first date.
  • The visitors somehow contrived to lose 20 wickets in a day at a ground where the pitches are renowned for being batsmen friendly.
  • Williams has contrived to pot two reds, now can he get himself into the match?
  • Contrived arrangements grew in popularity.
  • I've chosen a somewhat contrived example to demonstrate my new found test structure.

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