Sentence examples for contraption without from inspiring English sources

In the piece we noted in a sterling case of stating the obvious that it would be impossible to use the contraption without the victim getting annoyed.

Like some primary-school teacher, he hands out prizes for effort to pretty well everyone: Eisenhower, Nixon, Walesa, Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul, Deng Xiaoping and, above all, Gorbachev, who managed to defuse the whole contraption without it blowing up in his face.

He had been stranded on the contraption without food or water for almost three days, Russia's Ren TV reports.

And since wearing the Rift makes users less aware of the outside world, videos and photos of them donning the contraption — and taken without their knowledge — may end up on Instagram or Facebook.

Think Rube Goldberg contraption meets MacGyver, but without the playfulness.

Without that contraption, the camera loses nearly an inch of depth.

As horses died of starvation, the German inventor Karl von Drais came up with an idea to replace horses: a contraption with two wheels but without pedals.

For those without such a contraption, he recommends buying bottled sugarcane juice or piloncillo, Mexican sugarcane that's been boiled down into a block, which can be reconstituted and diluted to make a juice.

Not all bygone child-rearing contraptions were dangerous without benefit.

We made sure that the fastening device securely attached the trusses in the ceiling without risk of the entire contraption falling.

From shoes complete with GPS programming to find your way home, to a nifty contraption that allows you to shake hands without getting all sweaty, Wilcox's everyday innovations are as unassuming as they are brilliant.