Sentence examples for contraption in which from inspiring English sources

With expectations so high, no wonder it's impossible to find the 'perfect' contraption in which to transport one's precious baby.

He creates a contraption in which he pulls a cord which releases the bucket onto his head.

It's a contraption in which rigid parts are held together not by nails or screws, but by wires, cables or elastic bands, lending it some remarkable properties.

No designer visiting the exhibition is likely to be inspired by the baby cage, a boxy wooden contraption in which a toddler was confined.

This year, in fact, I saw one "aero" recumbent, an odd-looking contraption in which the rider had zipped himself into a tautly stretched nylon fabric shell.

Mr. Sergio's shrill screenplay is an ungainly mechanical contraption in which every swatch of dialogue rings with the clank of clichéd oratory.

Renaissance inventors designed Ferris-wheel-like contraptions in which each volume rides flat on a tray, open to just where the reader left it.

Back in the 1920's, the cartoonist Rube Goldberg became a household name by drawing a seemingly endless series of fanciful and absurd contraptions in which a simple action, such as pushing a lever, would lead to an unfolding mechanical drama.

Under water, she was locked into a contraption, feet tied in, which spun her round – then inadvertently changed direction.

And it has an assortment of exotic contraptions for sexual stimulation in which the human body seems turned into a mechanized prosthesis.

The American space agency, NASA, and the European Space Agency are collaborating on plans for an experiment in space in which the contraptions that would be used instead of mirrors would be 5m kilometres apart.