Sentence examples for dangerous contraption from inspiring English sources

It's a big, heavy, deafening, stinky, apparently dangerous contraption.

Many of the rides were dangerous contraptions that threw people together in bone-jarring collisions.

A bicycle can be ridden at four or five times the pace of walking, using the same effort, making it the most efficient, self-powered means of transportation ever invented (although early bicycles such as the Draisine, the velocipede and the high-wheeler were dangerous, hard-to-ride contraptions).

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

Moreover, the contraptions are dangerous – one of the reasons why peach and nectarine growers pay 40% more for workers' compensation insurance than grape growers.

Some are associated with the bizarre case of the Gammator, a nineteen-sixties-era research contraption filled with dangerous amounts of cesium that was distributed by the Atomic Energy Commission to schools, hospitals, and private firms to promote nuclear understanding.

By the end of the 19th century, inventors had finally started to figure out the rough mechanics involved in getting a person airborne, birthing a series of gliding contraptions that were unwieldy, dangerous and usually flew only a few feet above the ground.

"Those things are dangerous," he says, warily eyeing the rickety contraptions.

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.

The tents house two highly unusual contraptions, custom-built to neutralise the most dangerous of Syria's extensive stockpile of chemical weapons.

The contraption fools Mother Nature.