Sentence examples for no contraption from inspiring English sources

No contraption allowed.

"No Palm Pilot, no Memo app in an iPhone, no voice-recorder, no video, no contraption, no wires — just ink and paper".

No killer contraption defined the pre-industrial US economy more than Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which made cotton production efficient enough to become big business; this led, however, to an explosion in demand for slaves on Southern plantations to pick the raw material, resulting in the signature moral disaster of American history.

No Goldbergian contraptions here: the inner workings of these models entailed merely a small computer and printer, not much different from anyone's home-office equipment.

No doubt this contraption had been designed by someone unfamiliar with, or indifferent to, a woman's anatomy, because going to the bathroom while stuffed into this sausage skin would have made a great Mission Impossible episode.

Jang's "contraptions" are now no longer stylized displays of flaring raw power, but instead semi-mechanical embodiments of the viewer, forging associations with the essential dynamics of the human body: vibration, flow, breath and contractions.

No wonder Ernie's contraption took its name from that of a heavy howitzer.

Some visitors find it an alarming multi- story space voyager contraption, with no resemblance to orangutan environments in their native Asian habitats.

Let me clarify: in no way is consent a contraption, a turn-off, or -- the most feared of all -- the anti-sex.

The patent office required that inventors submit models with their applications until 1880, when it deemed that models were no longer necessary except for perpetual motion contraptions and flying machines.

Ford just wants to show skeptical drivers and policymakers that diesel engines are no longer the smelly, cloud-belching, clanking contraptions that people remember.