How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

noun

• The people wondered how the contraption worked.
• The mise en place of my cup, spoon, and pour-over contraption.
  — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2021
• And this past July, a man pushed a peanut to the top of Pike’s Peak with a bizarre contraption taped to his nose.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 22 Aug. 2022
• Did the new contraption give him some kind of new power?
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 1 Feb. 2022
• The contraptions were light and cheap, costing about $350 each.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• This handy contraption is a classy way to tote around your favorite six-pack.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
• As the contraption sank, a rare deep-sea creature mistook it for a meal.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
• The 7-pound contraption folds down to the size of a briefcase, and includes a carry handle to boot.
  — Outdoor Life, 23 Apr. 2020
• The rough-hewn contraption first took flight in 2011, and the team that built it founded Volocopter to advance the design.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2021
• There’s no telling when and if Vivo will launch such a contraption.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 July 2021
• One of the team members sketched plans for their pulley-like contraption in black ink.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
• But the contraption failed to catch on, perhaps because smells could travel back up the pipe.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• The entire contraption weighs less than two pounds and packs into a small mesh bag about the size of a sneaker.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2021
• Of the three probes that contained the wooden contraption, Ranger 4 was the only one to make it to the lunar surface.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2020
• There are all sorts of variations on this contraption, but the basic recipe is the same.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2020
• The head was made of black polystyrene, the wing folds were made of black elastic stocking, and the whole contraption was covered in felt.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• Cage: Twisted wire contraption that wraps the bottle’s lip and surrounds the cork.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• Then there’s the ace up his sleeve, a huge contraption on wheels that is armed with scores of arrows strapped to fireworks, ready to be lit and launched.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
• So tell us about this crazy firework–arrow contraption that Leah lights off at the very end.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Just as usual, there's a giant contraption in the sky, winks to the Avengers and light banter mixed with battle scenes.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• The contraption looked like a large black pizza box with one glowing green eye; it was mounted above the press box.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• The Solo Stove Lite Stove is a stainless steel contraption that pulls in air through the holes in its base to help the sticks and twigs inside combust.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2020
• Another tows the groomer, a large steel contraption designed to shave down moguls.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
• Now dip the contraption in a ceramic slurry again and again.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• The tears are flooding down her face, via a contraption the crew has installed on Gardner's face.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• My life is filled with rigid, unwieldy contraptions: strollers, car seats, high chairs — a parents’ world.
  — Yewande Komolafe, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The slick contraption could decipher a code so small that it could be printed on a pack of chewing gum.
  — Kovie Biakolo, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
• Several Twitter users posit that the contraption, which boasts a foot petal and a thin saw, is a jigsaw or fret saw.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
• Instead, Gohil loves flat foot files, which look like big nail files, over these metal contraptions and pumice stones.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 30 May 2024
• Rogers explained to his daters how to climb up a ladder-type contraption on the farm's irrigation system and use pliers to clean sand out.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024