Sentence examples for sophisticated contraption from inspiring English sources
An accident in 1995 involved a similar failure of its propulsion system, a sophisticated contraption that is considered expensive to maintain and was not installed on more recent ferries bought by the city, according to several officials and former employees familiar with the operations of the Staten Island Ferry.
Then there's the legacy USB-A port, which will charge any relatively less sophisticated contraption you might have lying around, like other gaming controllers or the handy USB-powered fan that's keeping you cool at the bus stop.
Imagine turning a house into a home, an apparatus programmed to cooperate, even anticipate and inspire, a sophisticated contraption attending to all of your whims -- a place where your emotional and physical wellbeing are taken care of -- designed with efficiency and adaptability at its core to make life delightful.
This floor-to-ceiling installation, a take on an hourglass, is a sophisticated, Heath Robinson contraption.
Making the opening sequence of "Game of Thrones," in which seven fantastically intricate animated maps of the kingdoms featured in the series crank into three-dimensions like ancient contraptions, required highly sophisticated design software to ensure that the imagery would look nuanced and realistic.
If anything, the recurrent motif of humans inserting themselves into mechanical contraptions in order to enjoy superhuman powers reaches its fullest, most sophisticated expression in the new movie, whose characters can literally become other, superhuman beings by hooking themselves up to elaborate machines.
Bagehot watched a lesson on the end of slavery in America become a sophisticated discussion of historiography; a science lesson, on gravity and pressure, morphed into a design class the children had to design a contraption to stop an egg breaking on impact with the floor.
He charts how the office chair developed from customized 19th-century contraptions like Darwin's as the expansion of the office furniture market enabled manufacturers to invest in increasingly sophisticated technology.
The contraption fools Mother Nature.
