Sentence examples for one contraption that from inspiring English sources

But two months ago, the 6-year-old received one contraption that, unlike all the rest, has enabled him to walk on his own two feet.

From behind bulletproof glass, in a space about as wide as the aisles of an airplane's first-class cabin, he manipulates tools that are Swiss made and high end: one contraption that opens watch cases and another that closes them; a device that checks if a waterproof watch is still waterproof; a machine that checks if a watch is running too fast or too slow within a 24-hour period.

Is the tiger rampaging through the city streets a real one or a mechanical contraption that's part of a government plot?

The Dumpster didn't block the street entirely, so after some debate, the shebab dragged two French doors from a nearby construction site and propped them at a delicate, 45-degree angle against the Dumpster, one on each side, making a contraption that looked as if it might fall over in a strong breeze.

Why someone with such good taste and business sense would do something this daft was still on my mind a week after we left, so I emailed to find out: "I'm already on the case [to put these problems right]," said Jane, who has ordered lockable barriers for both entrances and a one-way-glass floor/ceiling contraption that will stop canoeists ogling hungover stags and hens first thing in the morning.

Or one might think of a weird and complex contraption that yet succeeds in flying with grace.

An effective farce is a comic contraption that largely runs on its own crude mechanics.

One assemblywoman has called the printer attachment a "Rube Goldberg" contraption that could cause more problems than it solves.

But, inspired by the two-wheeled contraption that allows his crippled German shepherd to walk again (as one tear-jerking home video demonstrates), he takes a chance in the end.

In 1845, Elias Howe built the contraption that would spawn the modern day machine, including those built by one Isaac Merritt Singer.

We ended up coming up with this contraption that went through all these expensive iterations.