Sentence examples for is this contraption from inspiring English sources

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Not only is this contraption pretty nifty in its own right, but as Mr. Nickel pointed out, "there's a certain irony in that we're using this technology to present Victorian material".

But now, what is this contraption?

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"As we were walking down the drive, there was this contraption that the house owners had dumped in the garden – it looked like a robot out of Star Wars," he explains.

Many hurdles were encountered along the way but perhaps none more important than the engine technology; how was this contraption going to be propelled?

The other, nearly universal conviction is that this contraption must be a gimmick, some piece of plastic slickness that sounds cool but can't possibly work.

Everyone is calling this contraption a "hoverboard," possibly because Wiz Khalifa tweeted, "I stand for our generation and our generation is gonna be riding hover boards so if you don't like it eat a dick!" (I reached out to Wiz Khalifa's record label for comment but did not get an immediate response).

How's this Buck Rogers contraption work?

But one morning as I was getting dressed, I thought, "Why have I been strapping this contraption of cloth and wire to my upper torso for over a decade?" The shoulder straps would indicate that it's a load-bearing device, designed to aid with the transport of heavy objects.

"Mind if we take a photo?" "What is that contraption?" Abbey Grange asked.

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.

This is a contraption for blocking radio waves which is named after one of the 19th-century pioneers of electrical technology.

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