Sentence examples for contraption remains from inspiring English sources

But it's a jetpack that's really neither jet nor pack: the ducted fans are more like helicopter turbines, and the whole contraption remains too big to be easy to throw on as you're kissing the spouse and racing out the door.

Sealed off by an oddly festive candy-striped hoarding, this sinister contraption is the remains of the New York State Pavilion, constructed for the 1964 World's Fair.

While Mrs. Daldry squirms in surprise and shock at the sensations being induced by this curious contraption, Dr. Givings remains brisk and businesslike.

But perhaps the clearest message this strange contraption sends out is that Valve remains a company of geeks.

Then again, with choruses of shepherds and nymphs lamenting on behalf of the tragic Orpheus and the figure of Amor zipping in to tack on a happy ending, "Orfeo" remains a rather Baroque 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.

What remains is a Rube Goldberg contraption that will launch this country into a new phase of health care apartheid.

What you see in the gallery are the messy remains of brief performances in which he operates his contraptions.

But, at the end of the day, there's no point in giving up and you chow down on a burger after several hours of trying to re-engineer the contraption (or after switching to the stove while everyone else stands around cindering remains).

It remains to be seen whether the military is inspired by Furze's contraption.

The contraption fools Mother Nature.