Sentence examples for mechanical contraption from inspiring English sources

Nobody leaving "The Showgirl Must Go On" will confuse Ms. Midler with a mechanical contraption.

Rather than imbue a manufactured box with mystery, he turns our most evocative national metaphor into a mechanical contraption.

Designed by Jelle Mastenbroek, it is an antique cabinet filled with porcelain dishes and a mechanical contraption.

It is a long, low glass lozenge filled with water through which a mechanical contraption bearing a moving oar continuously advances.

"Our Fafner is a huge mechanical contraption with a bunch of prop men, electricians and carpenters underneath, making it work," Mr. Clark says.

Mr. Sergio's shrill screenplay is an ungainly mechanical contraption in which every swatch of dialogue rings with the clank of clichéd oratory.

Steam trains, mechanical contraptions, winsome kids in 1940s short trousers: it's all there.

These mechanical contraptions, developed in the late 19th century, were once ubiquitous in parlours, restaurants and dancehalls.

A lover of the car and mechanical contraptions of all eras, he was happiest in a sailing boat.

The idea of organically themed mechanical contraptions touches the rest of Mr. MacMurtrie's work as well.

There are all sorts of involved mechanical contraptions included in Mr. Jacob's collection- the Great Bicollection- thed," "The Teddy Roosevelt Bank," etc.