Sentence examples for contraption and from inspiring English sources

He considered Christmas a bourgeois contraption and would have none of it.

An aide came down and unlocked the contraption and we climbed.

"They put Chris on a pulley contraption and made him move his arms and legs.

PARIS — Americans call it a Rube Goldberg machine, Britons a Heath Robinson contraption and the Danes a Storm P machine.

A slight gap between the contraption and the hull increases drag, which could be especially harmful in light air.

Midgley, perhaps the most politically incorrect man of the century, strangled himself in the contraption and died suspended in midair.

They put our group on some kind of contraption and shook it to create a dizzying effect.

Big haphazard pyramids of exercise contraptions and unopened packages.

Carpenters carry tools and supplies in similar contraptions and electricians their cables.

But those contraptions and conventional firearms require a certain amount of knowledge and skill.

The narrow space is used efficiently, with alien-looking coffee contraptions and steel high stools.