Sentence examples for tiny contraption from inspiring English sources
Some included a tourbillon, a tiny contraption that slowly rotates the main mechanism, thus reducing the distorting effects of gravity.
Tiny mechanical contraptions are nothing new.
Down below, the little park's slide, seesaw and climbing contraption draw tiny tots toward their first taste of adventure.
When she joined the MA course, a tutor told her about the Sally Stanley smocking machine – a 1950s contraption with tiny needles that get threaded up and ruche the fabric into tight gathers.
More fanciful microfluidic contraptions include tiny jaws built at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque that can snare individual blood cells out of the bloodstream for testing.
AS the owner of a fitness studio in Brooklyn, Elizabeth Pongo recognizes the humor and humiliation inherent in shaping up: the ill-fitting shorts, the mystifying gym contraptions, the tiny sacks of cookies portioned to deliver just 100 sad calories.
Each had its own particular function and aesthetic take, for instance, Milton Bradley's version: a sliding box-type contraption that revealed tiny letters through a peephole.
Male workers were using die-cut machines to punch igniter buttons out of zinc alloy; female workers were molding tiny cannisters in plastic welding contraptions.
For such spindly contraptions, with their tiny propellers and gaffer-tape bandages, drones are remarkably resilient when a hapless beginner slams one against the floor, then the ceiling, then the floor again (repeat several times).
Here is what it takes to bring one of the world's great transportation networks to its knees: a tiny electrical fire in an obscure contraption of levers and pulleys, installed nearly a century ago.
Those tiny figures bouncing around on that floating contraption — it looks like a mobile suspended from a child's bedroom ceiling — are people.
