Sentence examples for contraption down from inspiring English sources

And, of course, to use the keys to type you still had to put the Frankenstein-monster of a contraption down.

So in 2007 Dr. Sohn led another expedition to the area, sending a homemade contraption down to the seafloor with high-definition video cameras and a sampling device.

Perched in the air-conditioned booth of Mr. Meador's canopy shaker, a jumpy ranchera tune crackling from the radio, Felix Real, a former picker, said he can make up to $120 a day driving the contraption down the rows, about twice as much as he used to make.

When I hit the bag the first good hard one, the whole contraption fell down.

The contraption finally touched down about 70 kilometers near the town of High River.

We just had boxes full of squares and rectangles and made buildings and contraptions that ran down strings.

Murphy beds, those spring-loaded contraptions that fold down from a wall, have become hip décor lately, but Mr. Kriete, 35, has discovered corners of Manhattan where entire apartment buildings have been outfitted with the beds for decades.

Monks, ostensibly sans desire, sell incense at a 1200% markup, and outside the temple cripples in formidable contraptions chase you down for change.

Monks, ostensibly sans desire, sell incense at a 1200% markup and outside the temple cripples in formidable contraptions chase you down for change.

His son Bryan delighted in foiling the contraption, shaking it upside down until it dribbled on the floor.

The weight of the engines and body of the flier sits lower than the rotors to create a pendulum effect that discourages the contraption from tipping upside down and creating what might be called the lawn dart effect.