What is "contrives"

Usage examples of "contrives".

Everything about his present surroundings contrives to lower his spirits.

The editor contrives to capture in one shot both Tony's expression and the girl's efforts to comply before kneeling beside his colleague to concentrate on Sharon.

Mackintosh feels envious of the way his companion contrives to look stylish on an Ecowatch salary.

It contrives to be intimate without being claustrophobic and gracious without descending into either monumentality or prettiness.

You are not yet fifteen years old, and no one of us can believe that such a youngling contrives the death of kings.

But his best stroke of all is the way in which he contrives to leave the island.

Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle.