Sentence examples for giant contraption from inspiring English sources

Clouds refract the moonlight that is supposed to be magnified in the Interstellar Light Collector in Tucson, Ariz., a giant contraption meant to use moonlight to cure disease.

Stinson took me across a dense wall of machinery and past a giant contraption that makes cardboard boxes so that the plant doesn't have to order them.

In The power an electrical dynamo becomes a stand-in for both the plantgonint's dead mother and his god.

Snippet of the song was performed by Gaga at the thirty-fifth season of American comedy show Saturday Night Live, while wearing a giant contraption ("The Orbit") of several metallic concentric rings that rotated around her.

Manitowoc's product line includes construction cranes, some of them giant contraptions mounted on crawlers that can lift a thousand tons -- roughly 50 elephants -- 400 feet.

The Crédit Municipal still has a 19th century mattress-delousing machine, a giant cylindrical contraption the pumped high pressure steam to kill any bedbugs.

"They are going to wait till they are absolutely sure it is working rather than say, 'The war is over.' " If the top kill fails, the company may try to use another giant steel contraption known as a containment dome to trap the spewing oil.

Try and keep your head that still while waving your arms up and down when they aren't attached to a giant wing contraption.

You go into their play space, and there's this giant wooden contraption you can tie people to and a medical station with medical supplies inside.

His novels are giant winged contraptions, packed to capacity, hurtling across time and space, "pitting levity against gravity," as he describes one of his airborne protagonists at the beginning of "The Satanic Verses".

Squint Scrooge-ishly, and all these hydraulics, that flying sidecar trike, the gold lamé boas and giant seabird contraptions, however elegant, can look a little like a business expense, props that can be offset against liabilities, in the wake of the trio's tax avoidance strategy exposed last year.