Sentence examples for contraption off from inspiring English sources

He thinks about switching the contraption off, but cannot quite bring himself to do it.

Rather than set his latest homemade contraption off in the Mallners' backyard, he and three friends headed to the school sports field a block away.

He pulled a mangled contraption off a shelf and blew dust from it.

Such a method may be fiendishly clever but it also removes the user's agency entirely — given that there's literally no air-gap between them and the technology (short of them ripping the contraption off their face).

He finally gave up on the fancy buttons in sheer incomprehension, and tossed the entire plastic contraption off my desk and into the bin.

The final product will be a contraption of trade-offs and murky accounting.

Possibly because, like those who ride the accursed Segway, riders of this contraption would give off a certain "punch me" vibe.

Nearly every kid had some "made" contraption to show off by the end of the day and me, I wanted to build a "rent-a-kid" booth to help those left out of the fun.

Dr. Lichtman and his team of researchers at Harvard have built some unusual contraptions that carve off slivers of mouse brains as part of a quest to understand how the mind works.

Any attempt to legislate our way to a cooler earth, the argument goes, will inevitably resemble the package of cap-and-trade emission restrictions that passed the House last year: a Rube Goldberg contraption whose buy-offs and giveaways swamped its original purpose.

Let me clarify: in no way is consent a contraption, a turn-off, or -- the most feared of all -- the anti-sex.