Sentence examples for an ingenious contraption from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it will be an ingenious contraption designed to roll back on itself to form a climbable sculpture of Joanna Lumley's hair.

"The Air I Breathe" is an ingenious contraption that holds your attention for as long as it whirs and clicks like a mechanized Rubik's Cube.

1978 The Belgian Michel Pollentier tried to evade drug testing with an ingenious contraption: a pump-action rubber bulb hidden in his armpit and filled with somebody else's urine.

The glass table in the corner ($529 from the Door Store) is an ingenious contraption, chosen for its leaves, which unfold like beetle wings to make a table for four, and its glass, which keeps the room feeling light and uncramped.

Despite its amazing capacity to self-heal, it's regarded as a mere mechanical marvel, like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz -- to be oiled, excised, and/or flooded with exogenous chemicals, an ingenious contraption incapable of learning, progressing, or manifesting.

To this day, Mr. Weingard still pries open recalcitrant windows using an ingenious iron contraption that Mr. Wagner invented and christened the window popper.

By enlarging eight sticks and binding them together with a central hinge, they devised an ingenious wooden contraption, which opens up at the top and bottom to resemble a twisted wooden bundle.

Wallace meets every challenge in life by inventing some ingenious contraption in the eccentric English tradition of Heath Robinson and Roland Emmett.

Inside a modern, low-slung building owned by Alatech Healthcare, ingenious contraptions almost as long as a football field repeatedly dip 16,000 phallic-shaped bulbs into vats of latex, with the capacity to turn out a billion condoms a year.

They are ingenious contraptions which aggregate a lot of scattered information, filter out some noise, and convert it all into easily digestible probabilities.

Tasked with building a machine that could shoot the most Ping-Pong balls into a tube, the students came up with dozens of ingenious contraptions.