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Sentence Examples His snake occupies the adjacent bathing machine, an Edwardian contraption resembling something out of a torture chamber. This contraption would knock down most of the mallee which would later be burned. It took old-fashioned rocket science to put the contraption into orbit on September 27 last year. Fill the space between tin can and saucepan with water and heat the whole contraption until the glue is fluid. The auditorium continued to buzz with bored voices and only quieted when he'd tapped on the cone-shaped contraption in front of him. The thing was then, and is now, a Rube Goldberg contraption of breathtaking audacity. If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate. A wooden contraption with a sliding seat and an oarlock place at the edge of the launch. She continued to rip off the obstinate gnashing steel contraption to no avail. There in Brighton is a Heath Robinson contraption that defies the laws of physics. The Liberal Democratic Party is a Heath Robinson contraption which defies the Laws of physics. I think the polling methodology is a Rube Goldberg contraption that seems conveniently to favor Democratic candidates on a fairly regular basis. To that end, he hijacks a tricycle laden with sweet treats and accidentally crashes the fast-moving contraption into the Magic Roundabout. First thing we gotta do is concoct some kind of cockamamie contraption that'll get us out of this mess. When it comes to chopping veggies, a schlemiel would spend days building a massive contraption to do it for him. The work suggests a metal contraption, perhaps an explosive device that could be detonated with a push of the beige button. He engaged the engine, causing two large screw propellers to whirl frantically and the wood and cloth contraption to lift off the ground. The old-school wheeled contraption barreled down the road faster than Marcus or Trevor expected. Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together. It is a sort of a big board game type contraption, free standing, and the size of an upright fridge. Show More Sentences Inside his head, there once was a Rube Goldberg contraption designed to help him play golf. The ingenuity of the contraption was that a string was wound around the alarm winder and the other end tied to the bolt. I can't help noticing a small, white bowl positioned beneath the groaning contraption. Back before Henry Ford's contraption changed everything, there were satellite towns built around Toronto that were connected by rail lines. Mercifully, the sail contraption collapsed and fell overboard before I even got it up. Your teacher will now help you, by inventing some contraption of hot bits of coat-hanger wire, to bore deep holes up from the base of the candle. Some brat even threw a rotten apple core at me and sped away in his blasted tricycle contraption before I could catch him. The noisy contraption of an elevator stopped once it reached the bottom of the shaft. It was a Copper and Brass contraption, similar in shape to a tobacco pipe, only about four times the size. It came with a strange fan-like contraption which turns out to be a reflector for the flash bulb. A flood light granted sight to the strangest mechanical contraption any of them had ever seen. He pulled one head phone out of his ear and pressed another button on the contraption to pause the music. Such a dangerous, overbearing contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did. The contraption is a cross between a blowtorch ad chain saw. Bodies were needed to carry the contraption, for it had no wheels. The mechanised contraption rattled its way over the rolling hills. Just watch Newman larking around on a new-fangled bicycle contraption with his pal's girl to a Burt Bacharach number. However, hauling such a contraption is unacceptable for me, as I would miss many pictures where stealthiness is essential. My whole body contracted and writhed with fear at thought of the impending collision, yet the contraption sped on, through me, and I felt it not. While some skiers refused to cling onto this contraption, the era of climbing breathlessly back up on foot was being revolutionized! Show More Sentences At the other end sat a winsome, child-sized fibreglass animal: the whole contraption was motorised. The track system would make it possible to cross trenches with ease and the weight of the contraption would destroy any tangle of barbed wire. Brazil's newest diplomatic contraption was submitted to the UN shortly before the Lima climate conference, which opened on Monday. A gun without ammunition is merely a mechanical contraption, a device that is practically useless. The whole contraption is heated and when the water boils, the steam passes through the coffee powder and pours into the upper container. It's a half-material, half-intellectual contraption that has functioned with me. He built a contraption that was supposed to be able to keep a large wooden wheel in motion by means of ropes and weights. We made the trip as best we could, in an old contraption that kept breaking down. Never before used, this novel contraption pushes Grand Trotino to the limits of his imagination. They had inserted some contraption in his arm to withdraw blood as required. You swap ideas differently in front of a contraption than in front of a diagram, however smartly done. I gave my wardrobe one final shove so that it was against the wall under the stairs that led into the room, darkly insulting whoever made the infernal contraption so heavy. After all the dirt has been cleaned away, the contraption retiles the remaining shards of the bird's voices into a mosaic of noticeably cold bleeps and pings. I parked the stroller at the base of the metal slide and wrestled Julia in her bulky snowsuit out of the belted contraption. Instinctively, we know it's not, but despair about how to turn the contraption off. He was, it appears, overpowered as the contraption failed to properly ignite. I would introduce a scientific contraption for cleaning up dog poo. Cade was moving towards the squeeze chute that restrained the cow while the injection was given, the same contraption Erin had seen rodeos use when cowboys mounted the steers. Spoons, safety pins, little magnifying glasses, plants, and endless bits of junk rise into the air like a Rube Goldberg contraption without the plot. After a day spent flying a bizarre New Zealand contraption that crosses a bungee rope with a microlight, Clarkson asks a qualified doctor about the rush he experienced. Show More Sentences One man hauls himself along on a three-wheeled skateboard, propelling himself with his one leg as his opposite hand uses a flat, iron contraption as a cane. The new fangled metal contraption left their animal wheezing, moaning, and screeching as only a horse does. He carried her around in a ridiculous contraption, a sling that held the baby's back to his stomach, so that she hung there in front of him, her head bobbing absurdly. Order the lobster soup: dumplings served in a pungent, beet-red vegetable broth, steamed before your eyes in a glass contraption resembling a coffeepot. The company's carbonator bottle is simply activated by moving a lever on the contraption up and down. Then someone looking at the contraption thought of tying a string from the handle of the valve that opened this communication to another part of the machine. Think low-impact jogging in a contraption that looks like a snowboot with football-shaped do-nut attached to the bottom. Terror comes to the believers in Greece as they are the first to face a GC loyalty mark application site and its benignly named but hideous death contraption, the loyalty enforcement facilitator. Rosina, when she saw me cooling, had no such merciful contraption ready. There are cheaper ironing boards available, I know, but I have got used to my super-duper man-sized contraption and you do get what you pay for. In the children's novel by Michael Ende, Lukas the engine driver builds this contraption in a twinkling of an eye and then flies off over mountains and through deserts with his friend Jim Knopf. We don't need the GDGC or any other Protestant contraption. His cousin challenged and then helped him to invent a contraption to band multiple lobster claws quickly, but Swift soon realized it was a limited market. That changed Wednesday in the hours after German officials learned that luggage screeners had found the untagged laptop bag and, scanning it, discovered the strange batteries-fuse-clock contraption. In the belief that the heavy contraption could not gain traction on smooth wooden rails, Blenkinsop had given it a ratchet wheel running on a cogged third rail, an arrangement that created frequent breakdowns. Clapper sits me down at a conference table with some chocolate biscuits and begins puffing on a black contraption with a window through which I can see a yellow-brown liquid sloshing. The brace is a positively mediaeval contraption, reminiscent of the gothic gynecological instruments that Cronenberg devised for Dead Ringers. Natalie is game, and she takes the ball and puts it down the right hole of a multilevered 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. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs tells the story of an eccentric wannabe scientist, Flint Lockwood. His latest contraption is a miraculous device designed to solve the world hunger crisis. Show More Sentences Whether you're perched high atop the ski slopes or whizzing through the air at dizzying speeds on an amusement ride, you're probably hoping that the contraption you're belted into has been tested for safety. She kept losing the contraption to servants who were mystified by it as well as to the dog, Chindit, who would be found gnawing at the foam as if it were tender chicken. Indeed, a 1961 editorial in the Situationist International mocked the Swiss sculptor's kinetic contraption, constructing a less heraldic lineage for Tinguely's work. The metal contraption is laid on a mole run and is triggered when the creature taps a disc with its snout, causing two sets of metal calipers to snap shut around its body. Yep, called the Isophone, the helmet contraption floats in a pool and, once you've popped your bonce inside, all other senses dwindle to a minimum. Examples from Classical Literature When we find Craven, we'll find the contraption that's blanketing Jupiter and its moons. Aw, you don't think you're ever going to get there with that contraption, do you? And your mother said you shouldn't ever have such a contraption in the house again. Yesterday we could bag them one after the other, as fast as I could fire this contraption. Before we all dash off to the supermarkets and DIY stores,perhaps we can just mull over this windup radio contraption for a moment. But it took ten days to get the contraption ready for the next fizzle. My children's teeth never had to have all this contraption on them. Go upstairs again, Amy, and haul up this end of the contraption. Wall, stranger, what kind of a contraption do you-all reckon to have thar? I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud. The entire contraption may itself be anachronistic and indeed was not fully operational during initial days of the exhibition. He's trying to walk with the contraption, which weighs as much as a grown man. Into the Institute's boxlike space, Libeskind has inserted a tilting planar contraption which has unexpected sculptural presence. I could see that he was not even half convinced that any such ridiculous contraption could make a canoe move through the water. The first bicycles for ladies had sidesaddle peddles, a contraption that did not catch on. If you looked down instead of ahead, you saw a turntable-like contraption bearing a rotating disk with the words YOU'RE THE REASON YOUR KIDS ARE UGLY printed on it. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of contraption? Words that rhyme with contraption What is the plural of contraption? What is the noun for contraption? Translations for contraption Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words contrapposto contrapositive contraposition contrapose contrapasso contra mundum contraptions contrapuntal contrapuntally contrapuntist contrarian contrarians 11-letter Words Starting With c co con cont contr contra contrap contrapt contrapti contraptio