Sentence examples for contraption up from inspiring English sources

Getting this contraption up and running is challenging enough, and the Met is a repertory house.

He climbed onto a chair and held the contraption up: it was roughly six feet long and cylindrical in shape, with a round hardwood top, a funnel-studded net draped along the sides, and a little glass jar dangling on the bottom.

Families in turn have access to microfinance programmes, eliminating any requirement to purchase the contraption up front.

They work by attaching to the top of a bag and weigh it when you lift the entire contraption up.

It was straight out of Roald Dahl's imagination, at once sinister and innocent — an ungainly contraption cooked up by, say, Good Humor and the K.G.B.

A cannon blasts gobs of lurid red wax-plus-Vaseline; a wagon-sized contraption made up of similar stuff deposits bits of itself on floors and doors as it slowly trundles through four rooms.

It doesn't seem to be adjustable, so you can't adjust for tilt — although that shouldn't be a problem since there's no way you could make the contraption stand up on an incline.

For a shower, this can be a simple contraption rigged up from a tree using a bucket or plastic bag, and using solar power to heat the water.

Stranger employs instruments like the chromelodeon and cloud-chamber bowls, contraptions dreamt up by 20th century musical theorist Harry Partch to split octaves from their usual 12 tones to 43.

You do feel pretty cool, in a Peter Parker sort of "I'm a photographer" way, but if you're used to consumer digital cameras, hauling these 1.5-pound contraptions up to your eye for each shot takes some unlearning.

When the cable was tight, it bent a spring on the platform roof, allowing the contraption to move up and down.