Sentence examples for is this contraption from inspiring English sources
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?
"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.
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.
