Sentence examples for contraption with a from inspiring English sources

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

Please excuse me while I suggest to the boiler man that he replace the infernal contraption with a time machine and set it for three months' time.

His solution would have been to replace the aerial ropeway — a rickety contraption — with a modern gondola that could have carried people as well as provisions.

"Our Fafner is a huge mechanical contraption with a bunch of prop men, electricians and carpenters underneath, making it work," Mr. Clark says.

They added hundreds of small glass particles to the water, then covered the whole contraption with a large cardboard box, which provided a dark background for (and some eye protection from) a powerful green laser situated underneath.

Clapper sits me down at a conference table with some chocolate biscuits and begins puffing on a black contraption with a window through which I can see a yellow-brown liquid sloshing.

Last in is his clunky wooden Swedish-made feeding chair, a contraption with an assortment of restraints and belts easily mistaken for an electric chair.

It is a colossal contraption with all sorts of facts, figures and notations that go beyond the mere statistics of a game.

The boxes Candler's workshop clients learn to construct are complex contraptions with a startling number of folds and angles.

The machines are small and compact, shaped like the original contraptions with a teeny joystick to control movement and buttons to start, mute, and fire.

There he boarded the mailboat, Le Nil, a strange, fragile contraption with sails and a tall funnel and a pair of paddle-wheels.