Sentence examples for form of contraption from inspiring English sources

Perry is always able to foil Doofenshmirtz's plans and in doing so accidentally leads to the destruction of whatever form of contraption his owners, Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, are building in order to make summer better.

Kesting told me, "It was water, of course — we had to find some sort of contraption to put on her".

Some sort of contraption had broken something, possibly by dropping it.

A "portrait" of Stieglitz takes the form of a metal contraption featuring a retractable metal grille.

This device or contraption took the form of a wooden cupboard lined with metal and insulated with steel wool.

The contraption was to be hooked up "to any suitable form of heater," which would send hot air through a pipe to a dome surrounding the woman's head.

Certainly, watching machines being created or destroyed -- an idea that dates at least to the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely's self-destructing contraptions in the 1950's and 60's -- has become an acceptable form of television entertainment.

The oxygen, in the form of tiny bubbles that give a slight tingle but are otherwise barely detectable, is sustained in five-gallon jugs of the water through a contraption the company said was invented by Jason Ritton, 23.

At first, I imagined a sort of sling contraption, but that would presumably be called a sling-in bathtub.

Getting (the point of) either kind of verbal contraption involves appreciating what the speaker has brought off in producing it.

What sort of toxic contraption might they dream up?