Sentence examples for contraption when the from inspiring English sources

They leaped off that contraption when the wheels starting falling off in the early 90's.

Each NXT light is powered by two or three AAA batteries, and a rolling switch turns off the contraption when it's upside down or sideways.

Mr. Mendow brokered a compromise: his client's husband agreed to refrain from yelling at his newfangled contraption when he could not hear it properly, and the couple reconciled.

If I had not engaged with that mysterious contraption when I was six-years-old, I would have lost the chance to develop a passion, piano.

Or a bowl full of keys to nothing, an IV contraption from when the cat had a urinary tract infection or a shiny plastic top hat emblazoned with "Happy New Year!

However, the steel contraption required oiling and overheated when the oil dried, thus limiting Goebel's ability to play a complete game in 1922.

I was scowling at her while she swung happily on the disused iron water pump in our garden, when the heavy rusty contraption fell.

He built his first weight machine in his father's garage when he was 22, at a time when the main users of such contraptions were body builders.

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

Even when the plan was announced, one city official described it as a kind of "Rube Goldberg contraption".

Attach strips of carpet or wind a small rope around the trunk of the tree house to give your cat something to grip easily when climbing the contraption.