Sentence examples for as the contraption is from inspiring English sources

O.K., so perhaps the commercials shown by ABC on Sunday were not awful enough to warrant a zap from the captive bolt pistol, as the contraption is called.

The name of the contraption is the Old Swimmin' Hole.

The contraption is not widely known in China.

The contraption was installed above a tabletop serving as the "canvas," with a blackboard and a white surface in the shape of a painter's palette positioned nearby.

The contraption was later used at Mohawk Mountain.

· The Grand Contraption is published by Princeton at £18.95.

The James Bond-worthy contraption is essentially a scent mixing board.

Based on initial tests in the Vancouver metro area (precursors to a commercial release next year), the scientists' new contraption is already being hailed as a massive leap in affordability and effectiveness when it comes to controlling the pests.

This contraption is the fulcrum of Rockefeller's globe-trotting life.

Unlikely as it seems, the music that emerges from this contraption is strangely haunting – antique and jangly, yet at the same time fresh, elegant and surprising.

"The ribs in the surface of the machine were broken," Orville lamented, as if his contraption were a wounded bird, "the motor injured and the chain guides badly bent".