Sentence examples for or contraption from inspiring English sources

This device or contraption took the form of a wooden cupboard lined with metal and insulated with steel wool.

A mandala is often used as a "yantra" (literally: instrument or contraption): that is, as a visual aid in contemplative and meditative exercises (Jung 1950/1959, p. 356).

Parade culture is year-round so there is always a costume or contraption of some kind in various states of being built.

They have tried to document changing pain thresholds with quantitative sensory tests, like the so-called cold pressor test Hutchinson witnessed in the methadone patients in Australia, or contraptions that apply heat or pressure to the skin.

The results are spectacularly eerie and hyper-futuristic, bringing to mind images of dystopian torture tools from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, or contraptions from Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

I have had an iMac for years, but no iPad or iPhone or similar contraption.

"Or that contraption they have in France," says Aunt Agatha, gleefully.

Perhaps it was some sort of an oven or steam contraption.

Corner recalls him talking endlessly about "imagery, technology and how he had managed to rig up some sort of screen or other contraption in his flat, in his eternal search for new ways to present his pictures.

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.

By Alexander Woollcott The New Yorker, May 10 , 1930 P. 42Story about how the Great Raymond, a magician who when he was touring the small towns used to offer in each town to break free from any straight-jacket, boot, belt, handcuff, or other contraption the natives might submit.