Sentence examples for from a contraption from inspiring English sources
A ravaged crone, trapped between her idiotically cherubic husband and a foul old fireplace, greeted with a toothless whinny of terror the sounds presumably issuing from a contraption- labelled "Edison" - the primeval phonograph.
Finally, he suspended them in a standing or trotting pose from a contraption of hooks and tackles bolted to the ceiling and, amid the vile slop and stench, worked his way through the flayed carcass, muscle by muscle, bone by bone.
In the lingering scorching sun, the colony erupted in a performance involving a pool of water emanating synthesized sound, as an excess of soap bubbles cascaded from a contraption involving a vacuum cleaner and a garbage can.
Digital equipment now exists to measure riders' progress, but the New York races use an antique set of British rollers from the 1960s, a contraption of pins and pulleys whose low-tech look and loud colors recall a Coney Island ride.
The "seawater" that the restaurant serves with its single oyster (poured over dry ice, so that the aroma, as well as smoke, enrobes the table), is distilled from algae using a contraption that Mr. Atxa and his in-house scientist have devised.
Wilson described Vince as a "remarkable man" who was a traveller with no money in his 20s, "but one year at the Glastonbury festival he rigged up a contraption from which he provided a wind-powered telephone service.
When Sarah Plummer's pharmacy changed her monthly prescription for cancer drugs from a vial to a contraption she could not open, she said, the pharmacist explained that the packaging was intended to help her remember her daily dose.
When he first learned to sew as a little boy, Philander's feet couldn't reach the sewing machine peddle and his sister had to devise a contraption from a crutch and a hosepipe that let him sew with his elbow.
My father and I watched their crazy cartoons, cackling as the Coyote's attempts to snare his avian adversary with a contraption from the Acme Company invariably blew up in his face.
Don't have your physicist character building a contraption from scratch based on a particle theory that they just came up with.
Winning the award for simplest and most creative hack (without writing a line of code) was iPad Supine Safety Strap, a contraption built from ordinary household parts that "keeps you from dropping you iPad on your face when consuming content while in the supine position".
