Sentence examples for contraption with from inspiring English sources

The espresso machine – a hand-operated contraption with huge springs and levers – had not arrived.

He pointed to the first, an elaborate sculptural contraption with spiraling metal arms and bulbs.

It also contained a contraption with pulleys that came to symbolize communication across distance.

Morgan had received from Trujillo a shortwave radio — a bulky contraption with dozens of thick black dials.

Just watch Newman larking around on a new-fangled bicycle contraption with his pal's girl to a Burt Bacharach number.

She said the new ring was safer than his old one, a makeshift contraption with boards and carpet padding.

"That one," she said, pointing at a sturdy black contraption with the unmistakable stains of chocolate stuck to its insides.

It was a contraption with a telescopic "sighting device" that used wheels and pulleys to move along a sideline track.

Resembling a colorful Rube Goldberg contraption, with waterworks, the 60,000-square-foot space lets children study the laws of physics while happily submitting to them.

Alternately, a maximalist parent could hang all 50 pieces at once with the Ikea Dignitet system, a kind of peg-and-wire contraption with sliding metal clips.

Thus the lodge: a low, flat, brown-shingled building, and the chairlift, a forty-year-old contraption with shiny red metal slats for seats.