Sentence examples for contraption on which from inspiring English sources

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Carl Djerassi, who has bright-white undulating hair, a neatly trimmed beard and an assertively charismatic manner, puts down his cane (he recently broke his hip, he explains) and removes from a leather case an old-fashioned steel contraption on which he rests his leg.

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There are strawberry harvesting machines, but they are mostly towed contraptions on which people lie down in order to pluck berries.

Smoke huffed from the pipes of Mr. Long's pig cooker -- a desk-size contraption on wheels, which he had hauled from North Carolina behind his pickup.

Li has some sort of alien-looking contraption on her knee, which may be hindering her movement.

The commercial centers on a Rube Goldberg-like contraption with which GoldieBlox building toys one by one destroys the more cliched products often targeted to women -- a heart pillow, a pink tea set, etc. GoldieBlox was founded on a socially aware message, noting in its branding that men still outnumber women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Dummett liked to use the then newfangled white boards, on which he wrote using variously colored water-soluble pens, erasing by means of a contraption that combined the qualities of a water pistol with a square of blotting paper.

'Tis in Lazy Pete's honor that Philip Musche surely named his one-handed book reading contraption, which essentially puts one of those book stands that keep pages open on a beefy handle.

A few years back, in its first major refinement, drug coverage was added to the program: Part D. But it's a Rube Goldberg contraption in which private insurance companies, on behalf of the government, manage the plans.

Hit a control panel on the $5,000 contraption, which is expected to be available next year, and out comes a scent that goes with the flow.

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

Innovations on these contraptions, which sell for up to $300,000, include motorizing the movement of a previously manual X-ray arm so the doctor, rather than a technician, can control it.

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