Sentence examples for contraption was the from inspiring English sources
The cardboard contraption was the product of a design workshop Roy taught, where students built digital machines from cardboard and explored questions like: "How do computers work on their fundamental levels?
Can a futuristic, slightly lopsided-looking, two-part plastic contraption be the key to good coffee?
Sealed off by an oddly festive candy-striped hoarding, this sinister contraption is the remains of the New York State Pavilion, constructed for the 1964 World's Fair.
Although only a two-seater, the contraption is the size of a limousine, using fold-down wings and a secondary conventional plane steering system to take off on patches of road or grass.
The middle son tells of the difficulty of making the hole in the ground; the contraption was nothing like the powerful, smooth backhoes that my son Harold is so in love with now.
Astron 35SQ crystal-controlled contraption was approximately the same price as a Toyota Corolla.
This implied that while the contraption was made with the artist's blessing, it was not even executed by him.
But this sudden entry aboard the three-wheeled contraption was one of the strangest parts of the whole journey.
After some last-minute urging with a sledgehammer, the contraption was in place, and the single filament of a large bulb began to glow a pale orange.
