Sentence examples for contraption that would from inspiring English sources

An hour's drive farther west, just outside the hamlet of Ardaneaskan, on Loch Carron's north shore, we've parked our car and climbed aboard an Argo, an eight-wheeled contraption that wouldn't be out of place on a lunar mission.

When I saw the contraption that would carry us 460 metres (yards) below ground, my excitement turned into fear.

In 1845, Elias Howe built the contraption that would spawn the modern day machine, including those built by one Isaac Merritt Singer.

But instead of using these to replace all the existing silos of coverage and subsidies, these were grafted on top of the existing patchwork, resulting in a poorly functioning contraption that would make Rube Goldberg proud.

Toast is nothing new – the Romans held bread over flames to prolong its edible life – but it took convenience-obsessed America to come up with a contraption that would do it for us.

It would be like having a third leg. it seems like a contraption that would get in the way.

The American space agency, NASA, and the European Space Agency are collaborating on plans for an experiment in space in which the contraptions that would be used instead of mirrors would be 5m kilometres apart.

His instrument of choice: a peculiar-looking electrical contraption that few would recognize today as the apparatus of the title.

In one of the more nauseating passages, Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his face.

A limited selection of music recordings, along with the contraption's proprietary format that would not play on home equipment, doomed Highway Hi-Fi to failure.

WHO would have thought that a Frisbee-shaped contraption that extracts dust from carpets would be the state of the art in household robots at the dawn of the 21st century?