Sentence examples for contraption is called from inspiring English sources

O.K., so perhaps the commercials shown by ABC on Sunday were not awful enough to warrant a zap from the captive bolt pistol, as the contraption is called.

His latest contraption is called the Sorenson VP-100, a videophone device that works in conjunction with a broadband Web connection and a large television.

The contraptions are called funnel traps, or tolei in the local Mende dialect.

The contraptions are called "ultralight" aircraft because their weight does not exceed 254 pounds empty, with a fuel capacity of no more than five gallons.

Everyone is calling this contraption a "hoverboard," possibly because Wiz Khalifa tweeted, "I stand for our generation and our generation is gonna be riding hover boards so if you don't like it eat a dick!" (I reached out to Wiz Khalifa's record label for comment but did not get an immediate response).

At first, I imagined a sort of sling contraption, but that would presumably be called a sling-in bathtub.

By 1989, the liquid in a bottle, rather than the contraption on the nozzle, was being called a body wash.

A ludicrously impractical or elaborate machine came to be called "a Heath Robinson contraption".

The most famous design for what could generously be called an early hang glider remains Leonardo da Vinci's of a contraption seemingly pulled from a children's book.

Soon a video of one of their songs was posted on the McCain website, on some newfangled contraption over there that they're calling a "blog".

Ultimately the whole contraption is supposed to be authorised by something called "the people".