Examples of “contrivance” in a Sentence

noun A clever plan or scheme used to achieve a particular goal.

• And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance. — Plato, translated by Lesley Brown (2005)

noun Something that seems too cleverly arranged to feel natural or genuine.

• The retrospective emphasis on these two specific stories—even their mention here, in the previous paragraph—has become a contrivance. — Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties (2022)
• The Harry Hamlin character is a bit of a hypochondriac, a contrivance that exists for the sole purpose of bringing him into contact with the confused young doctor at the clinic. — Walta Borawski, A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park (1982)