Sentence examples for contraption that uses from inspiring English sources
What researchers at the University of Nebraska came up with was a contraption that uses four steel tubes that are welded.
A coffee maker is a near-medieval contraption that uses primitive semipermeable barriers called filters to capture the grounds while the coffee-infused water passes through.
A Rube Goldberg machine, of course, is any extremely inefficient contraption that uses an excessive number of moving parts to achieve a relatively trivial end.
The Sonic Foamer is a strange contraption that uses a pulse of ultrasonic vibrations to release the carbonation suspended in a brew for an ample, frothy head.
The Norwegian composer and artist Christian Blom's Piet on Ice (at Babel Art Space) is a contraption that uses "the growing and melting of ice-roses as its material".
I first became aware of Arad and the clinic when researching the Bod Pod about nine months ago.The Bod Pod is an egg-like contraption that uses air displacement plethysmography to reckon how much blubber those who clamber inside are sporting.
AS Jill Baumler stood in the "head house" at the very top of her grain elevator, with a large herd of bison visible through the window behind her, she pointed out the metal contraption that used to gravity-feed grain to the warren of rooms in the building below.
The most famous of these inventions may be a contraption that used concave mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto wooden ships in order to burn them.
Rube Goldberg machines are named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who became famous for his whimsical drawings of contraptions that use ridiculously complex actions to perform simple tasks.
— As a scientist working for NASA in the 1990s, K. R. Sridhar developed a contraption that could use energy from the sun to transform the elements of the Martian atmosphere into breathable air or propulsion fuel.
They represent a wholesale upgrade from the little metal contraption that Colin Spoelman was using to make moonshine illegally in his Williamsburg apartment just a few years ago.
