Sentence examples for some contraption from inspiring English sources

I thought I saw a flash of something under there, some contraption attached to his face.

Hamilton: What, Jefferson, do you expect horses to be attached to some contraption that soars above the ground with the fearsome appendage of a cannon?

This isn't the suitcase of our imagination or some contraption featured on the "Jetsons".

For a while I'd thought immersion: a plastic pool around the head, some contraption that could keep space sealed and leaking.

Within seconds, I tug at the handle to politely alert them to the person waiting for that spot and then click around a little so they can hear there is some contraption outside their potty playhouse.

Be it in a restaurant with friends, on Christmas Eve with the family, on a business trip -- whatever the place and whenever the time -- the players will have to fully abide the commands of a complete stranger who, with inquisitorial powers, will make them urinate into some contraption right in his presence.

Some contraptions are decidedly low-tech.

I've also been delaying the news that "Vanished Smile," for all its piquant details and plot-driven gleam, is a rusty, rattling, unsafe-at-some-speeds contraption.

Now they've got some almighty contraption - like an elephant's foot, says Bumble - to sort it out.

Maybe it's time to move past the baby boomers and choose a justice for whom the Internet is not some newfangled contraption.

Wallace meets every challenge in life by inventing some ingenious contraption in the eccentric English tradition of Heath Robinson and Roland Emmett.