Sentence examples for special contraption from inspiring English sources

Not only that, but she uses a special contraption that is designed to give kids an unfair advantage over incompetent grown-ups such as yours truly.

You can buy a special contraption called a critter keeper, designed especially for the purpose of keeping gerbils and other rodents contained when they aren't in their cages.

"It's nothing serious - one engine will be enough, and you won't need any of your special contraptions," she said.

Using a wheelchair since falling off a church spire in a "psychosomatic episode" in 1989, Lindenau moves around the shop that doubles up as his home using special contraptions to navigate tight spaces.

Involving lots of brandy and a special silver contraption, it is one of those gastronomic rituals that could originate only in France (like breathing the condensed fumes of a cooked songbird from under a napkin – a delicacy that's now illegal – as François Mitterand did on his deathbed).

You will need to assemble a special ramp contraption.

They'd have to build a special sort of iron lung/toilet contraption to both contain the shit and feed me with the various solutions I would need not to die.

Because Congress built a policy machine designed for special interests, most proposals were chockablock with policy contraptions impossible to even explain, much less put into effect.

He wore a bulky contraption on his left foot and a special shoe to keep his foot and toes from dragging.

ANTIGRAVITY This aerial dance troupe, which has collaborated with the likes of Franco Zeffirelli (in his "Turandot" at the Met) and Britney Spears, defies the force of gravity with its arsenal of uplifting contraptions, from bungee cords and trapezes to special "anti-gravity boots" that send its gymnast-dancers flying fifteen feet into the air.

The contraption fools Mother Nature.