Sentence examples for by the contraption from inspiring English sources
(Isherwood) Off Broadway ★ 'ADDING MACHINE' A bleak but brilliant musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 play about an all-American loser who kills the boss when he finds he's being replaced by the contraption of the title.
(Brantley) Off Broadway 'ADDING MACHINE' A bleak but brilliant musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 play about an all-American loser who kills the boss when he finds he's being replaced by the contraption of the title.
Each one-of-a-kind photograph retails for upwards of $3,500 per print a professional might spend $1,750 a day to rent the camera and $200 on a print and few but the wealthy and famous can afford to be snapped by the contraption.
Another story, which is probably bunk but interesting nonetheless, is that Hampton had business at the NBC studios in New York where he happened upon a vibraphone they used to play the iconic chimes that identified the network and was instantly fascinated by the contraption.
I'd done it again; I'd clicked myself into oblivion and here I was watching a video of a chubby man-child lolling about on his sofa, his life made hilariously difficult by the contraptions he'd had installed to enable his laziness.
Tidily enough, she will fight death by restoring the contraption's artificial life.
They soar through the sky like a bird by flapping their arms, and the contraption responds by dipping and banking to match their movements.
A child knows that a bicycle has two wheels, that its tires are filled with air, and that you ride the contraption by pushing its pedals forward in circles.
His neighbors – less than delighted by the sounds of the contraption – chipped in to buy Terry's first instrument, a $12.50 pawn shop trumpet.
The contraption works by measuring the infrared radiation's intensity that's emitted by the lunar surface.
Email the person a personalized, belated birthday card, letting him or her know you feel badly about forgetting and that you'd like to redeem yourself by breathing new life into the contraption they're staring at now.
