Sentence examples for a contraption from from inspiring English sources
Wilson described Vince as a "remarkable man" who was a traveller with no money in his 20s, "but one year at the Glastonbury festival he rigged up a contraption from which he provided a wind-powered telephone service.
When he first learned to sew as a little boy, Philander's feet couldn't reach the sewing machine peddle and his sister had to devise a contraption from a crutch and a hosepipe that let him sew with his elbow.
My father and I watched their crazy cartoons, cackling as the Coyote's attempts to snare his avian adversary with a contraption from the Acme Company invariably blew up in his face.
Don't have your physicist character building a contraption from scratch based on a particle theory that they just came up with.
iPad Supine Safety Strap Winning the award for simplest and most creative hack (without writing a line of code) was iPad Supine Safety Strap, a contraption built from ordinary household parts that "keeps you from dropping you iPad on your face when consuming content while in the supine position".
Christian was fascinated with a small case containing a pint-size Etch-A-Sketch in the grip of a contraption made from Mindstorms pieces.
Those escalators, a contraption imported from America in the 1910s, are where our lovebirds first see – and are kept apart from – each other: one is going up and the other down.
Or a bowl full of keys to nothing, an IV contraption from when the cat had a urinary tract infection or a shiny plastic top hat emblazoned with "Happy New Year!
He walked me round the corner to a storeroom packed with costumes, flags and bugles, and retrieved a massive wooden contraption from a cupboard.
The most famous design for what could generously be called an early hang glider remains Leonardo da Vinci's of a contraption seemingly pulled from a children's book.
It was in a one-bedroom co-op on lower Fifth Avenue that, in the name of the project, they lived by candlelight and tried to keep milk cold in a contraption made essentially from giant flowerpots and sand.
