Sentence examples for contraption through a from inspiring English sources

Dawson rotated the contraption through a series of arcs, imitating a pitcher in a windup.

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For some reason, I expected an elaborate set of mechanisms, a sort of strange contraption through which the turtle races would be conducted.

Cartwright, who recently completed a PhD in archaeology at Cambridge University, has spent the past eight months piloting the unusual contraption through the city for Outspoken Delivery, one of a fast-growing breed of logistics companies eschewing the motor vehicle in favour of pedal power.

Geary duct-taped a toilet-paper roll core to the business end of a flashlight, and in the bathroom's humid dark she beamed the contraption through two dozen white eggs to locate the yolks' shadows, which she marked on the shells with a Sharpie (brown eggs were impervious to the device's low-wattage luminance).

The muffler shop owner drove his contraption through town on Friday and within two hours had knocked down or damaged nine buildings before the machine ground to a halt in the wreckage of a warehouse.

One car even contained a children's play area -- a rope ladder, a big pipelike contraption to crawl through, a gym mat to jump onto.

A flying simulator called "Birdly --the least cinematic of the Sundance experience; it's essentially a ride--replicated the feeling of flying over San Francisco as you lie face down on a full-Birdly --theaption and peer through a headset.

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

I suspect if you tried to pass these contraptions through airport security, you would have a quicker time walking than flying to your destination.

Clapper sits me down at a conference table with some chocolate biscuits and begins puffing on a black contraption with a window through which I can see a yellow-brown liquid sloshing.