Sentence examples for electric contraption from inspiring English sources
Previous EDMs have included one to legalise the Segway (a pogo-like two-wheeled electric contraption) for road use and lamenting his delayed train.
Mosquitoes think the Mosquito Trap, a two-foot-high electric contraption that looks like a trash can on a pole, is human.
At the end of the segment, the avuncular presenter declared that the music we had just heard was the work of an instrumentalist manipulating an elaborate electric contraption.
Taking a page from train conductors, who then punched holes in tickets to denote passengers' observable traits (eg, that they were tall, or female) to prevent fraud, he developed a punch card that held a person's data and an electric contraption to read it.
You know, I wear this electric contraption on my head in some of the scenes and there was one day where I just kept getting this pinching in my ear, and then my cast mate, Burn Gorman, put it on, and he said, "I believe that's electric shocks".
It's a cross between an automatic telephone exchange and an electric calculator, wired to contraptions that issue tickets.
Found inside the Olympic committee headquarters were torture devices, including a sarcophagus equipped with nails to puncture and suffocate victims, and a contraption for administering electric shocks.
Takoyaki ($4.75 for six) is the faster of the two dishes, and it's fascinating to watch the chef as he uses a contraption resembling an electric sifter to pour batter onto a griddle that looks like a metallic egg carton.
Dubbing itself "the electric kitchen," this snazzy chrome countertop contraption promised to facilitate cooking everything from a healthy breakfast to an elaborate dinner party roast.
He tried to capture its character – which he described as a "diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950's Quatermass science fiction television series" – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
