Sentence examples for contraption to the from inspiring English sources
The girl carried the contraption to the next table and started a competition there.
But it's less about tricks than about how smoothly the performers make their way from one contraption to the next.
After Gjertrud Jynge, along with Oyvind B. Lyse, dragged the contraption to the side, it lived on as an urban sculpture: a roadside shrine and an extravagant ghost bike rolled into one.
Four hundred years ago on Tuesday, an Italian professor of physics and mathematics called Galileo Galilei demonstrated a simple contraption to the Venetian Senate that would set in motion one of the most profound revolutions in human thought — a revolution that continues today.
After several delays, the company is ready to bring its gaming contraption to the market.
Astronauts aboard the space station have been able to impose upon the nearby Russian Soyuz spacecraft, using its limited-capacity toilet in a pinch, and have now apparently rigged some sort of sack-like contraption to the toilet on the ISS.
The animal rights group announced that it would send over one of its Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher contraptions to the White House in the event of "future insect incidents".
In 2002, microbiologist Kim Lewis, along with his colleague at Northeastern University in Boston, microbial ecologist Slava Epstein, described a new technique for coaxing bacteria to grow: Put soil samples into tiny chambers sandwiched between permeable membranes and return these contraptions to the ground.
Frank Zamboni spent much of the next decade building a contraption to smooth the ice and eliminate the time it took crews to scrape, shovel and spray.
What the JNLWD would like is a far smaller contraption to accomplish the same goal, replacing the enormous, super-cooled "gyrotron" with solid-state electronics, perhaps, or compact lasers.
Varda uses fiction as a spring-loaded contraption to unleash the element of documentary within her films, and she uses documentary as a magic wand to conjure fictions.
