Sentence examples for contraption with the from inspiring English sources

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

It's impossible to say if it was because she had to concentrate on steering the contraption with the horse's bridle or if she was listening to the doll behind her who seems to be urging her to speed up.

To pass each level, players must put together a vehicular contraption with the available parts – propellers, balloons, umbrellas, explosives – which can somehow carry the pigs over a series of rocks and chasms to collect the necessary points.

But though he had fashioned a poultice of ripe juniper berries and the bark of the Borneo poplar and fastened the contraption with the twined root of huckleberry, still he limped and still the wound festered.

Nominee Alex Horne would certainly win an award for most elaborate set: in his show Monsieur Butterfly he spends an hour constructing a huge Mousetrap-style contraption, with the help of the audience.

Long ago, I curled beneath the radiance of a friend's squat, plastic contraption with the focus of a grad student cramming for a midterm and the tranquility of a lazing cat, and since then nothing certainly not my bedroom's bare overhead energy-saving bulb or the office's draining florescent will do.

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.

The athlete might draw a piece of paper out of a hat; sometimes the ceremony involves one of those bingo hall contraptions with the frenetic Ping-Pong balls.

He had to block the use of a Russian-made device for her tracheotomy, declaring, "Maybe Dr. Pavlov used that kind of contraption with dogs at the turn of the century!" In general, Dr. Klesarev said, this is a typical exchange: "I call the central pharmacy and say, 'I need this,' and they say, 'Oh, we don't have the money, and you can't get it.' "So you get the money from the relatives.

And if he runs out of bullets, he has a big knife strapped to the contraption with duct tape.When Americans hear the words "poor" and "white", they think of someone like Mr Banks.

With its various components and moving parts, the installation looks like a kind of Rube Goldberg contraption crossed with the Surrealists and Duchamp's readymades.