contraption in English

noun
1
a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
There are the flying machines and steam contraptions , technology from a fantastic version of the industrial age.

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1. Damn contraption.

2. It's not a contraption!

3. a Heath Robinson contraption.

4. Does this contraption work?

5. Come get me out of this contraption.

6. I don't understand how this contraption operates.

7. I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!

8. No one place in the contraption governs walking.

9. It's a contraption for washing windows on tall buildings.

10. Whatever's that strange contraption you've got in the garage?

11. His scooterlike contraption, appearing about 1817, was basic in design.

12. A Borgesian Contraption is a never-ending story generating machine

13. From this unique contraption, Hart will oversee the live performances.

14. And buy a proper wooden table and not that plastic contraption.

15. Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves.

16. 2020 The webbed contraption looks something like an unraveled Alimentary canal — esophagus

17. Amiranha (858) 472-6098 Interesting contraption to say when? Sheltered indoor parking

18. She showed us a strange contraption that looked like a satellite dish.

19. The lave net was a simple but very effective contraption for catching salmon.

20. One enthusiast has constructed a gallows-like contraption in order to perfect his technique.

21. But not to worry, a Laker contraption keeps that hair out of his eyes.

22. 20 One enthusiast has constructed a gallows-like contraption in order to perfect his technique.

23. The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.

24. It is not surprising that this contraption serves itself more reliably than it does ordinary Brazilians.

25. At its first airing, the contraption rolled less than 100 meters before the transmission froze up.

26. 20 At its first airing, the contraption rolled less than 100 meters before the transmission froze up.

27. A crablike contraption sidles menacingly across a biscuit shaped planet, housing a star in its glass belly.

28. It would have been better to build secure mortuaries rather than putting one's money into an expensive contraption.

29. It was an ungainly - looking contraption and it was meant to imitate the L. M., the Lunar Module.

30. A new National Geographic Channel special lays out the intricate contraption known as "WCS" or "waste collection system.

31. Within a couple of years, Larry was experimenting with digitizing books using a jury-rigged contraption in our office.

32. Seven of us squeezed into this contraption, which wheezed along at about ten miles an hour, coughing blue fumes.

33. 27 He was sitting alone by a window with a weird contraption on the bench in front of him.

34. He lay there, a saline drip in his arm, his head tilted back and held in a vice-like contraption.

35. So he built this model, this crazy contraption with levers and wood, and here's his wheelbarrow, buckets, a big sledgehammer.

36. By demonstrating his floating contraption - part surfboard, part kayak and part sailboard - Halfon hopes to create a tide of attention.

37. 21 By demonstrating his floating contraption - part surfboard, part kayak and part sailboard - Halfon hopes to create a tide of attention.

38. This was in the school hall, and they dragged out a heavy box horse and a creaking contraption made of wood.

39. The contraption held small plates of cattle blood and other substance that were covered by a thin membrane to mimic skin.

40. Airships originally referred to any sort of flying contraption, including some back-of-the-parchment designs that date to the 17th century

41. Bloodsheds End DLC is the third and final of 3 DLC packs for Nioh, here is the complete guide to help you find every Kodama, destroy every revenant contraption and get to level 20 in The Abyss

42. Crankity Brainteaser; It's a gear-connecting, brainteasing contraption Encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, concentration Get your brain cranking! Perfect for travel Multiple solutions to each puzzle are possible Player must use all gears printed on the puzzle card You can move any of the gears around the grid except the red and yellow

43. Die Glocke also showed up in Igor Witkowski’s 2000 book Prawda o Wunderwaffe (The Truth About the Wonder Weapon)—and soon after, Nick Cook’s The Hunt for Zero Point—as a “glowing, rotating contraption” that possibly had “some kind of Antigravitational effect,” or was even a “time machine” that was part of an “SS