Sentence examples for the sort of contraption from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

"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.

Here's the thing: The clearing house concept under Dodd-Frank is a clunky, Rube Goldberg sort of contraption.

It is a large plastic contraption, the sort of thing a plumber would turn up with to fix a radiator, and its interior compartments are a museum of my early years in the business.

He sold some sort of contraption which made it easy to attach your hose to the faucet or whatever you call it.

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".

In a sad twist, though, he is working on some sort of contraption to search his memory for his birth mother who abandoned him.

If I didn't see the sort of atrocious individual who rides these contraptions with my own eyes on a frequent basis, I would assume that the sort of activity that involves adults welding bike frames together and riding them around town was confined to the world of "things advertising agency employees do on their lunch breaks".

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.