Sentence examples for contraption i from inspiring English sources

For headphones while DJing I use a contraption I invented – the gramoscope – which is a stethoscope with the chest piece replaced with an ear trumpet.

If she'd married a Kuwaiti, she'd have had to battle with that horse's-bit contraption I keep seeing in Harvey Nicks.

We then ran the names through what I call the Cruel Nickname Generator, a mental contraption I'd created back in my days of terrorizing girls during elementary school recess.

Over at Nashville's City Cemetery, our second stop, volunteers wielding a contraption I'd never seen before were attacking a bank of bush honeysuckle: An Uprooter, it turns out, is a miracle tool, part wrench and part lever, that makes it possible for a normal person to pull a small tree out of the ground by its roots.

And don't get me started on that contraption I put my face into at the optometrists!

While I feel there is a little danger of singing the wood in this Field Kitchen contraption, I love the idea.

AFTER a week immersed in Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions, I found strange thoughts bubbling up in my head.

While his playmates were getting rug burn and bumping into tables, he did jigsaw puzzles, studied whatever contraptions I could bring him, leafed through books, tore up magazines, sang and talked.

Before I knew it, I found myself in a bright pink sex shop surrounded by vibrators, cock rings and all sorts of sexual contraptions I'd never want my mother to know I've seen, all in the name of research.

It was while desperately grappling some infernal contraption like I'd just fallen into the workings of Big Ben that I contemplated abandoning this whole "exercise" charade.

"They're always trying to get me into the sort of outfits the tennis players wear, some sort of contraption that I couldn't fit one boob into, let alone my arse," she says, "'I wouldn't be able to play badminton matches in that.