Sentence examples for A contraption of from inspiring English sources

The final product will be a contraption of trade-offs and murky accounting.

Turning the language of liberation into a contraption of conquest is nothing new: it's part of Liberal heritage.

It seems improbable that a piece of ancient machinery, a contraption of levers and pulleys designed in 1913, would be critical to the successful operation of one of the nation's largest commuter railroads.

Digital equipment now exists to measure riders' progress, but the New York races use an antique set of British rollers from the 1960s, a contraption of pins and pulleys whose low-tech look and loud colors recall a Coney Island ride.

At first it was unnerving to talk to a woman who was lashed to her bed with a contraption of leather belts and heavy brass buckles, so I angled my seat away from her face and spoke to her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.

Finally, he suspended them in a standing or trotting pose from a contraption of hooks and tackles bolted to the ceiling and, amid the vile slop and stench, worked his way through the flayed carcass, muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

The experts recommend building a contraption out of an empty soda bottle, filling it with soapy water, and drowning the stinkbugs inside, but I am dubious.

The satellite looks like a contraption out of a Dr. Seuss book: a dish antenna 6 meters across spins like a lasso atop a long boom.

Onstage was the Shockspot, once dubbed the "Rolls Royce of fuck machines"—a mechanized contraption of hard lines and metallic finish with a dildo affixed to its arm.

But they are not alone; instead of a contraption for two, other conservative leaders have strapped into the device for the worst kind of insulated group think.

Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself, directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from a peculiar contraption of a thriller by Dennis Lehane.