Sentence examples for a contraption that could from inspiring English sources

If the body were a machine, Turing wondered: is it possible to artificially create such a contraption that could think like he did?

IN A neglected corner of a lecture theatre at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, sits a glass cabinet containing a contraption that could have been created by Rube Goldberg himself.

A dog-lover whose father bred Irish Setters, Girona has spent much of the past decade photographing and documenting dogs with the goal of creating a contraption that could extend the luxury of a toilet to dogs.

He would put a hungry cat in what he called a puzzle box — a small, cagelike contraption that could be opened by the press of a lever or a bar — and place a dish of food outside the box.

One assemblywoman has called the printer attachment a "Rube Goldberg" contraption that could cause more problems than it solves.

It was a big, automated Rube Goldberg contraption that could test ninety-six compounds at a time and do a hundred batches a day.

This DJ Hoodie looks like a hoodie-meets-straight-jacket contraption that could double as a torture device in A Clockwork Orange, but we're utterly fascinated with it nonetheless.

For a while I'd thought immersion: a plastic pool around the head, some contraption that could keep space sealed and leaking.

They had already married, had children, sent them off to college, attended their weddings, and were waiting excitedly for grandchildren, who'd come to play on the wooden contraption that could dangle them upside down for hours, or break their ribs if they sprang free.

Teams collaborated in a contest to build contraptions that could protect eggs from breaking when dropped.

Satellite phones often the only ones working right after a disaster used to be clunky contraptions that could only transmit speech.