Sentence examples for contraption as a from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

No flat-topped, bolt-in-the-neck weirdo like Karloff, Jonny Lee Miller's astonishing Creature flops stark-naked, shaven-headed and grotesquely scarred through the vaginal flaps of Frankenstein's circular Leonardo-esque contraption as a latently beautiful man.

So huge a presence is he that it is almost startling to find him arriving for a rehearsal of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) at the Royal Opera House on as modest a contraption as a bicycle.

Maybe in a century or so, medical museums will remember this contraption as an early ancestor of the fancy, professionally manufactured rehydrators sitting in their laboratories.

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.

Mike Epps, once again playing a silly, motor-mouth sidekick, helps hold up the comic end of this awkward contraption, as does Steve Harvey as a drunken radio D.J.

– has been put together with similarly loving detail and the contraption emerges as a hugely moving tribute to parenthood.

Mr. Depp carries the picture, but it's a light and flimsy contraption masquerading as a pop epic (A. O. Scott).