Sentence examples for devised little from inspiring English sources

Like a lot of women of her generation — she was born in 1923, in New York City — she started her career late and in the shadow of her husband, working for years as a stylist in the couple's fashion-photography business: she devised little scenes to dramatize the merchandise, he took the pictures.

I had devised a little friendliness experiment.

I devised a little scene which he does excellently".

Hampton made it as a pitcher, a plan his father devised when Little Mike was still in diapers.

The widget, devised by Little Fluffy Toys, covers 32 cities in countries from America to Australia, and generates lucrative business for the London-based software developer.

So I devised this little experiment where I take the roll of toilet paper off the spinner, hold it above the toilet, leaving some paper hanging down.

The wolf (Mr. Forand) is, well, still the big, bad wolf, but probably no one has devised a "Little Red Riding Hood" yet that would sit well with the Sierra Club.

And in "Attempt to Raise Hell" (1974), he devised a little mechanized marionette, a self-portrait, that smashed its head, at unexpected intervals, into a big cast-iron bell.

Suppose Diana did not die in a car crash in Paris in 1997, but sick and tired of her life in the tabloid fishbowl, devised a "little plan" to disappear: while vacationing on a boyfriend's yacht, she would take an early morning swim and never return; the world would assume she had drowned or been eaten by sharks, and she would be free to reinvent herself abroad.

To change that, we devised a little experiment.

So we've devised a little celebrity real estate test to take you back to those childhood days when you 1) forgot to study; 2) never read the book; or 3) the dog ate your homework.