Sentence examples for local contraption from inspiring English sources
People at the scene described a local contraption known as a zarange — a motorcycle with a wagon attached to it — that was packed with explosives and detonated.
A crowd gathered as Ignatius Epuwat, Amref's local water and sanitation officer, bent over the contraption and explained plans to repair it.
The drought czar has granted permission for local carnivals to have dunk tanks -- those contraptions where you throw a softball and the local police chief plops in the water -- as long as the water is reused.
The contraptions are called funnel traps, or tolei in the local Mende dialect.
For instance, a $16.99 hose reel (a contraption to hold a hose) was out of stock at a local Sears, a fact I learned only after a 20-minute drive to the store.
In Southwold, Suffolk, few can resist the Whack a Banker machine or the Booth of Truth at the Under The Pier Show, a hair-brained arcade of home-made contraptions, mad cap games and exhibits that is the brainchild of local scientist and inventor Tim Hunkin.
Richard Steinberg, program manager for electric vehicles at the BMW Group, said lessees encountered local red tape; some municipal inspectors saw the Mini's wall-mounted charger as a strange or hazardous contraption, especially on the East Coast where E.V.'s are even less familiar than in California.
The contraption fools Mother Nature.
