Sentence examples for was this contraption from inspiring English sources

"As we were walking down the drive, there was this contraption that the house owners had dumped in the garden – it looked like a robot out of Star Wars," he explains.

Many hurdles were encountered along the way but perhaps none more important than the engine technology; how was this contraption going to be propelled?

Not only is this contraption pretty nifty in its own right, but as Mr. Nickel pointed out, "there's a certain irony in that we're using this technology to present Victorian material".

But now, what is this contraption?

The other, nearly universal conviction is that this contraption must be a gimmick, some piece of plastic slickness that sounds cool but can't possibly work.

How's this Buck Rogers contraption work?

But one morning as I was getting dressed, I thought, "Why have I been strapping this contraption of cloth and wire to my upper torso for over a decade?" The shoulder straps would indicate that it's a load-bearing device, designed to aid with the transport of heavy objects.

Everyone is calling this contraption a "hoverboard," possibly because Wiz Khalifa tweeted, "I stand for our generation and our generation is gonna be riding hover boards so if you don't like it eat a dick!" (I reached out to Wiz Khalifa's record label for comment but did not get an immediate response).

What was the contraption bulging out of his backpack?

This is the contraption that connects your microphones and instruments to your computer.

You go into their play space, and there's this giant wooden contraption you can tie people to and a medical station with medical supplies inside.