Sentence examples for contraption as from inspiring English sources

Sink thought the travois was not as good a contraption as Indians claimed.

Zabawa described the contraption as a "minor feat of mechanical engineering".

(Wikipedia)] Franz Reichelt (d. 1912) attempted to use this contraption as a parachute.

Even top campaign finance watchdogs view this Rube Goldberg contraption as goofy and ripe for change.

Inventors killed by their own inventions [Franz Reichelt (d. 1912) attempted to use this contraption as a parachute.

Your decision not to refer to your contraption as a walk-out bathtub leads me to believe that you are aware of that.

Under French command, they flew against the Germans in wood and canvas contraptions about as well engineered as a love seat from Ikea.

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.

From the very first page, Claro establishes himself as fearless in style, and parades the reader through a series of precise narrative phantasm-like contraptions just as exciting as the buzzing in the bodies on the paper.

But these "contraptions," as one American officer called them, were armed with powerful battlefield rockets.

He's run a technological experimentation blog called 'Work In Progress' since the fall of 2013, created such crazy contraptions as a code to transform a camera into a musical instrument, and even made a fully-automated stop and frisk robot.