Sentence examples for contraption that from inspiring English sources

We ended up coming up with this contraption that went through all these expensive iterations.

Mr. Holland also invented the Autobackgammon, a contraption that allowed players to play by themselves.

An effective farce is a comic contraption that largely runs on its own crude mechanics.

The great bureaucratic contraption that governs our city-in-motion is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

In the living room sits a huge contraption that lets Reilly train indoors.

Scientists shut him in a womblike contraption that sends him into the past.

Some included a tourbillon, a tiny contraption that slowly rotates the main mechanism, thus reducing the distorting effects of gravity.

This was absolutely untrue — Fiona had been devoted to a European contraption that made only two cups at a time.

Coffee, when you ask for it, is made in a contraption that might have been a character on "The Jetsons".

I never grasped the import of a flapping birdlike contraption that kept popping up in the background.

Ice fishing requires boring a hole through the ice with an auger, a contraption that resembles a four-foot corkscrew.