Sentence examples for contraption would be from inspiring English sources
Twenty?" Unfortunately, this is sort of like asking Charles Babbage, who drew up the first blueprints for a general-purpose computer in the 1830s, whether his contraption would be hitting store shelves by the 1840s or the 1850s.
Unfortunately, this is sort of like asking Charles Babbage, who drew up the first blueprints for a general-purpose computer in the 1830s, whether his contraption would be hitting store shelves by the 1840s or the 1850s.
When it was first introduced, people thought the bulky contraption would be a stand-alone device that would run several tasks using adapters and accessories, similar to how today's PCs handle faxes, E-mails and video.
The American space agency, NASA, and the European Space Agency are collaborating on plans for an experiment in space in which the contraptions that would be used instead of mirrors would be 5m kilometres apart.
But as Ruina's contraption shows, there would be a dangerous intermediate stiffness where gravity was offset and the vehicle could tip at any angle without falling over unless the driver tried to turn.
WHO would have thought that a Frisbee-shaped contraption that extracts dust from carpets would be the state of the art in household robots at the dawn of the 21st century?
Supposedly the revolutionary leaders were so eager to find evidence of the ancien régime's depravity that they exhibited a confiscated printing press they'd found there, a contraption with which no ordinary people would be familiar: "Here's their instrument of torture!" The power of technology: it's totem, taboo and the whole caboodle.
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For some reason, I expected an elaborate set of mechanisms, a sort of strange contraption through which the turtle races would be conducted.
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.
Also, who would be qualified to operate these contraptions?
