Sentence examples for contraption it is from inspiring English sources

Involving lots of brandy and a special silver contraption, it is one of those gastronomic rituals that could originate only in France (like breathing the condensed fumes of a cooked songbird from under a napkin – a delicacy that's now illegal – as François Mitterand did on his deathbed).

A yellow, Y-shaped metal contraption, it is sealed with an electronic lock that can only be undone by an authorized party using a secure digital signature.

Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe argued, "If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child".

People in Detroit like Henry Ford, who was the most famous but there are others, said there's a middle-class market for this contraption, it's not just the plaything of the wealthy".

The New York Times quoted another bomb guy who referred to the device dismissively as "a Rube Goldberg contraption" — "It's the 'swing-the-arm-with-the-shoe-that-hits-the-ball-and-knocks-over-a-stick-that-knocks-something-off-a-shelf,' and it is all supposed to work".

When you stepped into the contraption, it was a bit like zooming around outside.

Philips Warm Sensual Massager If your date didn't run screaming when he or she saw the heated oil contraption, it's fair game to whip out the Philips Warm Sensual Massager for him or her.

When you spend six months and 5,000 hours perfecting a 300-step, Guinness Record-breaking Rube Goldberg contraption, it's gotta be a bummer to come in second place to some wimpy-ass 191-step machine simply because you had to intervene by hand a couple times when a ball failed to drop or a lever refused to swing correctly during the officially timed test run.

Once you've started playing Contraptions, it's awfully hard to stop.

Each NXT light is powered by two or three AAA batteries, and a rolling switch turns off the contraption when it's upside down or sideways.

He climbed onto a chair and held the contraption up: it was roughly six feet long and cylindrical in shape, with a round hardwood top, a funnel-studded net draped along the sides, and a little glass jar dangling on the bottom.