Sentence examples for that very contraption from inspiring English sources

Not a bad return for the intrepid peddler, considering I had seen that very contraption in the trash a block west earlier in the day.

The BSC operates around the clock & it likes to have its mail delivered at midnight, so it can extract your hard-earned funds--it boasts a couple of computerized envelope-slitting and sorting contraptions, each of which can cope with as many as 25,000 bar-coded missives an hour--& get them banked & starting to draw interest for the feds that very afternoon.

Nelson told Architzer that the contraption's construction took roughly 30 hours to complete.

It turned out to be an ingenious (and very French) contraption with a heavyweight battery, 10kg at a guess, that recharged nightly and sat below the saddle to provide a spirit-lifting nudge as ­energy sagged or legs began to shriek on steeper inclines.

Mr Nosler hints that his sleek contraption may soon appear in much larger café chains.

The cable box, that ugly plastic contraption that squats under your TV, is under threat.

They leaped off that contraption when the wheels starting falling off in the early 90's.

Of course, that contraption costs money to run.

There are novels that are contraptions, configured like cages, traps, or flypaper, to catch things and hold them.

Over the years, his wearable computers have become less obtrusive, going from bulky, very visible contraptions, to today's sleeker Google Glass.

The obituary list of hedge funds should give pause to anyone imagining that all these contraptions are bound for glory.