Sentence examples for a contraption like this from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a contraption like this" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific device or mechanism that resembles the one being discussed or shown.
Example: "I was amazed by the complexity of a contraption like this; it could perform tasks I never thought possible."
Alternatives: "a device such as this" or "a gadget like this".

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It turns out that you don't just toss a contraption like this in the garbage.

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His solution is to use a contraption like a coffee percolator that separates the juice from the hips.

She made foul-smelling yogurt — on Gaga's stove, in a contraption like a double boiler — and chewed with her mouth completely open.

Then a sheet of paper about 4 feet by 3 feet (all right, call it 1.2 metres by 0.9, if you must) was imposed on the inked type by a contraption like a pneumatic octopus; a roller transferred ink to paper and the octopus picked up the printed sheet.

It's a contraption rather like a public phone box, with two of the walls removed.

"I thought he was crazy," Paul said, adding that he saw Butler at practice with "his hand wrapped up in a little contraption, like he was going to try to play.

"We could put them in a TriBeCa gallery," Mr. Vila said, standing near a contraption that looked like a giant, filthy pastry bag.

It would be like having a third leg. it seems like a contraption that would get in the way.

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.

It looked like a contraption a wedding photographer might use.

The ensemble behaved like a contraption that shook, sifted, crawled, growled, gnawed, groaned, and sang.

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