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Sentence Examples But from a purely pedestrian viewpoint, this seems like a Rube Goldberg response to the simplest of ideas. I think the polling methodology is a Rube Goldberg contraption that seems conveniently to favor Democratic candidates on a fairly regular basis. Inside his head, there once was a Rube Goldberg contraption designed to help him play golf. The thing was then, and is now, a Rube Goldberg contraption of breathtaking audacity. In emulation of him, they have turned the wagon into a Rube Goldberg plane that takes off, despite King's efforts to stop it. With fascination R. watched me rig up this Rube Goldberg device and mount the switch outside the back door. This one stars Rube and shows him at the drawing board and such. She's not a Rube Goldberg machine, but a perpetual-motion one. Rube Goldberg legislation is most dangerous when you do not have buy-in from the public and the opposition party. Even more impressive is the fact that Kelly has managed to marshal this Rube Goldberg menagerie into a smart, funny lampoon of gung-ho militarism. Spoons, safety pins, little magnifying glasses, plants, and endless bits of junk rise into the air like a Rube Goldberg contraption without the plot. Rather than going about things in a straightforward manner, she devises stratagems, the complexities of which are analogous to the workings of a Rube Goldberg project. A lazy off-season afternoon in Palmer's house is like being trapped in a Rube Goldberg cartoon. Like the Rube Goldbergian contraptions that start by pushing over a domino that turns on a fan that blows up a balloon, there's a satisfaction in getting it right. Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy. To make the ad, the engineers at Honda constructed a Rube Goldberg Machine made entirely out of car parts from a Honda Accord Touring. In a brilliant Rube Goldberg design, this produces enough agitation to allow the active ingredients to dissolve slowly. Texas has a school finance system that would have made Rube Goldberg giggle. David finds his groove and is inspired to create an exceptionally fun and clever campaign, focused on the use of a Rube Goldberg machine that ultimately lands him the account. Sixth grade students at Quest to Learn, a New York City public school, recently got a two-week break from regular class work to build a giant Rube Goldberg machine. Show More Sentences Luciana appears near incoherent and her debonair, eloquent lover a frazzled and henpecked rube. You know, in today's business, everything is so cookie cutter and so formulaic, for a rube like Billy to hit like he has is a great thing. Examples from Classical Literature That's because these teens were preparing to compete in Purdue University's Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. I would suggest, if we Americans can pitch into this great movement, some gargoyles designed by Mr. Rube Goldberg. You learned the language just by sticking that Rube Goldberg deal on Tim's head? I'm envying you terrible, Rube, being there every day and watching the thing grow. But Rube was too good and cautious a climber to make a mistake. The collection, spanning half a century, unravels the correspondence between the royal and her friend, Kate Rube, and later Rube's daughter Elizabeth Gillman. It's like a fellow handing out a twenty-four karat gold bar to a rube by mistake, under the impression it only looks like one. He knows nothing of our common terms of disparagement, such as kike, wop, yap and rube. It was only the untiring care of rube and his wife, and Seth, that pulled her through. We were away before daylight, and I never saw Uncle rube again. But Penrhyn could borrow a rube outfit and escape from a farm. Here's a big rube comin' along, hayseed stickin' out all over, hands like hams an' feet like Mississippi gunboats. Find more words! 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