Sentence examples for from one contraption from inspiring English sources

But it's less about tricks than about how smoothly the performers make their way from one contraption to the next.

His midcareer retrospective, like a mad scientists' fair of screwball contraptions, hopscotches from one dexterous tour de force to the next.

As a director, he's interested in plays or books, or premises in general as forums for solving problems; as contraptions to get from one place to another.

Karl later takes a job in a hotel which functions as a huge information-relay contraption, with boys scurrying from one floor to another carrying messages that have been dictated over phone-lines, written down, crossed-checked with ledgers to and from which other boys constantly dart – in short, a metaphorical cross between a computer and a novel-in-progress.

If you ever get the chance to pull on one of these contraptions, DO IT.

Let's blame her disappearance on not flying one of these contraptions on that fateful flight.

Try out some of the colorful exercise contraptions: stand on one and swing front to back, side to side on another.

The Dumpster didn't block the street entirely, so after some debate, the shebab dragged two French doors from a nearby construction site and propped them at a delicate, 45-degree angle against the Dumpster, one on each side, making a contraption that looked as if it might fall over in a strong breeze.

Stephin Merritt stood stoically on one side behind a retro keyboard contraption and sang in a bassy croon for most of the show, which included several tracks from the band's much loved 69 Love Songs and their new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea.

This is what has become known as the Wu cycle – "a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel – from open to closed system".

"History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel from open to closed system".