Sentence examples for like a contraption from inspiring English sources

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It looked like a contraption a wedding photographer might use.

The ensemble behaved like a contraption that shook, sifted, crawled, growled, gnawed, groaned, and sang.

It sounded like a contraption Bradley might have seen in Vietnam, either for the troops to exercise with or, more likely, to torture prisoners.

The satellite looks like a contraption out of a Dr. Seuss book: a dish antenna 6 meters across spins like a lasso atop a long boom.

It would be like having a third leg. it seems like a contraption that would get in the way.

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She sprinted the length of the gym while pulling a weighted sled, then ran back while pushing a heavier sled, then did bouncy squat-like reps on a contraption that seemed to mimic skiing over bumps, then dragged a weighted sled backward, then rowed hard on an ergometer, then skated side to side in her stocking feet on a slide board while holding a ten-pound medicine ball.

"The thing is, I don't like wearing them, I don't like the feeling of having a contraption on my face.

It turns out that you don't just toss a contraption like this in the garbage.

His solution is to use a contraption like a coffee percolator that separates the juice from the hips.

She made foul-smelling yogurt — on Gaga's stove, in a contraption like a double boiler — and chewed with her mouth completely open.

Then a sheet of paper about 4 feet by 3 feet (all right, call it 1.2 metres by 0.9, if you must) was imposed on the inked type by a contraption like a pneumatic octopus; a roller transferred ink to paper and the octopus picked up the printed sheet.

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