Sentence examples for odd contraption from inspiring English sources

And at times Mr. Frears and his cast almost succeed in making this odd contraption work.

Then I spied the tangle of wires that ran to all the goodies my son had hooked up to the computer over the years -- the speakers, the printer, the scanner, that little blinking thing on the floor, that odd contraption hanging on the wall.

"They're interesting shapes and sizes, and they always look like odd contraptions in some way".

The stadiums would be modern marvels; the Olympic villages would incorporate the best of architecture from around the world, and odd contraptions like bobsled courses or velodromes could be built just once, and updated over time to accommodate technological innovations.

Series J introduced Stephen's "Jolly Japes", which involved scientific experiments with an unexpected outcome and odd contraptions.

So, with this seemingly positive trend in health why do we keep licking our lips for "diet" sodas and putting odd contraptions on our limbs?

There was an elaborate machine that made mint juice, long syringes, odd Styrofoam contraptions, deep pots belching white smoke (this was the liquid nitrogen).

Then, finished with his evaluation of you, he will take away the gun you have been using and begin fiddling with another, rather odd-looking contraption known as a 'try-gun.'.

And there's no shortage of odd-looking contraptions that promise to help, be it the aptly named Ostrich Pillow that cocoons your head in a padded sack or the UpRight Sleeper that prevents your head from falling forward so long as you're willing to look like Hannibal Lecter post-incarceration.

Among the current exhibitions, "One Second One Year" (through Dec. 31) features odd devices and contraptions that self-activate — or don't — at intervals, continually creating and frustrating viewers' expectations.

We've seen a few odd joystick-style contraptions of late, but none quite as thought out as Logitech's.