Sentence examples for contraption to work from inspiring English sources

Alinghi, it turns out, had tried to build an underwater toboggan of its own, but could not get the contraption to work.

Breathing heavily, with his suit overheating and visor fogging up, the astronaut struggled to get the contraption to work.

It doesn't help that when it comes to too-big-to-fail banks the current system of financial regulation is a rickety, complicated, Rube Goldberg-ish contraption designed to work around the massive danger that they pose to the economy.

"It's a homemade deal, but it works real good," Jimenez said as he dangled the contraption to form a loop with the cord.

What he had overcome were the unexpected difficulties of getting a contraption designed in the 19th century to work in the 21st.That, as it happens, is exactly the problem faced by the world's science museums.

Within a year, though, Godley and Creme had quit, to work on a guitar-based contraption called "the gizmo" and a triple album featuring comedian Peter Cook and jazz legend Sarah Vaughan, entitled Consequences.

There had been speculation that each of the challengers had tested similar contraptions, but apparently neither could get them to work.

(God, or somebody, forbid he should try to work the new Rube Goldberg contraption for the crosstown bus).

He was talking to a friend on 67th street who was walking to work wearing the same kind of contraption.

The bit about the contraption requiring large pectoral muscles, etc. in order to work doesn't really consider all the evidence, I would argue.

A juvenile sea eagle, trying to work out whether it could eat the strange contraption.