Sentence examples for contraption to a from inspiring English sources

That year, an engineer at the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, decided to attach the metal contraption to a pair of rubber galoshes.

So he fused some bicycle parts and connected the contraption to a high-end computer workstation running a custom-built flight simulator.

Back home, Mr. Ballas poked holes in a tin can, strung strands of fishing line through the holes, attached the contraption to a rotary lawn edger, and the Weed Eater was born — or what is more generally known as the weed whacker, a device that has reshaped the landscaping industry and delighted amateur gardeners.

He wired the contraption to a six-volt battery, and then to an automobile taillight that he hung in the ranch house's kitchen, or to a radio on which the family could hear the latest cattle and wheat prices via a station broadcasting out of San Antonio.

But engineers haven't figured out where to attach the dishwasher-size contraption to an already crowded cab underbelly.

For instance, a $16.99 hose reel (a contraption to hold a hose) was out of stock at a local Sears, a fact I learned only after a 20-minute drive to the store.

She will be bringing corsets and attachable skirt bustle contraptions to a November sale at her business, Augusta Auctions, in Manhattan.

It was likely back in third grade, when a teacher paired you up with a partner to write a paper or build a contraption to drop an egg from two stories up.

Bagehot watched a lesson on the end of slavery in America become a sophisticated discussion of historiography; a science lesson, on gravity and pressure, morphed into a design class the children had to design a contraption to stop an egg breaking on impact with the floor.

To keep the kids entertained on road trips, he built a cloth-and-strap contraption to hold a portable TV/VCR in the car.

Some will pull out the analog contraption to take a carbon paper imprint instead.