Sentence examples for sort of contraption from inspiring English sources
Some sort of contraption had broken something, possibly by dropping it.
Kesting told me, "It was water, of course — we had to find some sort of contraption to put on her".
"They're always trying to get me into the sort of outfits the tennis players wear, some sort of contraption that I couldn't fit one boob into, let alone my arse," she says, "'I wouldn't be able to play badminton matches in that.
He sold some sort of contraption which made it easy to attach your hose to the faucet or whatever you call it.
Such is his box-office appeal - and importance to a sport which is in the doldrums because of drug scandals - Bolt now routinely opens Diamond League events by driving onto the track, but seeing the great sprinter in the sort of contraption more normally found in a sci-fi movie was a first.
Here's the thing: The clearing house concept under Dodd-Frank is a clunky, Rube Goldberg sort of contraption.
Back in the early 90s when Macaulay Culkin was a cultural mainstay, kids left home alone might dream up all sorts of contraptions to ward off would-be burglars.
At first, I imagined a sort of sling contraption, but that would presumably be called a sling-in bathtub.
How often have you struggled to operate some sort of digital contraption: wrestling fruitlessly with complicated controls, having failed to make sense of the instructions?
But unlike the other robotic pets, it would not be the sort of silvery contraption that looks as though it just pounced off a flying saucer.
