Sentence examples for contraption is considered from inspiring English sources

Jefferson's portable desk, a 5-pound mahogany contraption, is considered a national treasure and kept at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

An accident in 1995 involved a similar failure of its propulsion system, a sophisticated contraption that is considered expensive to maintain and was not installed on more recent ferries bought by the city, according to several officials and former employees familiar with the operations of the Staten Island Ferry.

The computerized system is considered far less fragile than the 1930s-era lever-and-pulley contraptitn it will replace.

(The old-school Lower Manhattan loft where the couple has lived since the mid-1960s may be considered one such contraption, a rare environment fondly immortalized by their son Azazel Jacobs in his 2008 movie "Momma's Man").

One contraption is really weird, though.

The contraption is not widely known in China.

The name of the contraption is the Old Swimmin' Hole.

Using this contraption is a little like owning a puppy.

· The Grand Contraption is published by Princeton at £18.95.

Her contraption is a kind of two-way video hookup with a robotic pen arm.

No, seriously, this contraption is genius.