Sentence examples for a strange contraption from inspiring English sources

Politically, New Jersey is a strange contraption.

There's a strange contraption on the desk in front of me and I can't help wondering what it is.

The fish ladder is a strange contraption, more like a coal chute with a 180-degree twist than a ladder.

One day in 1985, a friend of his brought home a strange contraption after visiting his father, a computer programmer who lived in England.

Later, at a park, Liz visits Dennis, in which she sees that he is building a strange contraption.

The Sonic Foamer is a strange contraption that uses a pulse of ultrasonic vibrations to release the carbonation suspended in a brew for an ample, frothy head.

For some reason, I expected an elaborate set of mechanisms, a sort of strange contraption through which the turtle races would be conducted.

But his father Tom Peter Cumminss) instructs him to throw away the strange contraption (a personal radio), while in the small ramshackle hut they share.

There he boarded the mailboat, Le Nil, a strange, fragile contraption with sails and a tall funnel and a pair of paddle-wheels.

With its high ceiling, old porcelain sink, wall pipes going nowhere and a strange rusty contraption sitting on its own concrete platform, the subject of "Scrub Room, Island No. 3" is inexplicably menacing.

LITTLE did Dawn Ellerbe know, when they handed her a strange metal contraption featuring a ball and a chain, that they were giving her a chance to be an Olympian.