Sentence examples for contraption from the from inspiring English sources

Another train, a wood-sided contraption from the 1920's, is still used to string up the overhead power lines that feed the system.

That's our livelihood". The crew of a semi-submersible drilling vessel, Helix Q4000, were forced to wait hours longer than expected to hoist the containment contraption from the deck of the Joe Griffin supply boat, because dangerous fumes rising from the oily water on a windless night had delayed the work.

They're launched with a car-sized slingshot contraption from the ground.

My father and I watched their crazy cartoons, cackling as the Coyote's attempts to snare his avian adversary with a contraption from the Acme Company invariably blew up in his face.

Jason Smith, a very crafty father and fan of the cult favorite "Aliens," took the concept to a whole new level this week, creating a "Power Loader" costume, based on the alien-fighting contraption from the film.

A report in the Antiques column on Friday about books on Steampunk artisans and their creations referred imprecisely to Art Donovan, author of "The Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions From the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement".

The designer Art Donovan has written 17 short biographies of his competitors for "The Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions From the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement" (Fox Chapel Publishing).

There's something weird about seeing once joyfully rude and over-the-top contraptions from the 1950's and 60's lined up like choirboys in church, with their ties askew and shirttails out.

Our cinema has a well-oiled history in freaky foot-to-the-pedal films and contraptions, from the getaway vehicle that splits in half in Malcolm, to cars converted into prison cells in Dead End Drive-In and, most recently, a methane-powered zombie truck in Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.

His landscapers trucked in three quarters of a million cubic meters of topsoil from as far as 30 miles away, plus nearly 300,000 salt-resistant plantings from California and New Zealand, along with giant stone-pulverizing contraptions from the French Alps to improve drainage—only to see some of his machinery vandalized in the process.

Or a bowl full of keys to nothing, an IV contraption from when the cat had a urinary tract infection or a shiny plastic top hat emblazoned with "Happy New Year!