How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

noun

• The people wondered how the contraption worked.
• The massive contraption was chopped in half for shipment from Europe.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
• The black metal contraptions are custom-made for the store and include low white shelves for shoes, like rolling fashion shopping carts.
  — Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2024
• The contraption itself, which looks like an infant bouncer, affixes to the bulkhead.
  — Sarah Firshein, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Sep. 2019
• Some people are tasked with eating cockroaches, being buried alive, fighting to survive Saw-like contraptions, and more.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 23 Oct. 2019
• The 42-year-old Lincolnshire course is a delightful sea of colors and contraptions and mini golf challenges.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• But the overall pattern of the play tips toward despair, seeing families as Rube Goldberg contraptions for the transfer of neurosis.
  — New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• But awkward governing contraptions are increasingly unavoidable if the AfD is to be kept out of office, as all other parties insist.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
• The webbed contraption looks something like an unraveled alimentary canal — esophagus, stomach and intestines.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• The contraption comes with one air-tight lid that goes on the top pan in the stack.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 28 Jan. 2020
• 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 Haloid Xerox contraption was the size of two washing machines and weighed 648 pounds.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 6 Nov. 2019
• 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
• The idea was the contraptions would eventually sink, taking the carbon to the bottom of the ocean.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 29 Aug. 2024
• Fill a bottle with clear but dirty water, then plunge in a strange contraption that fills it with light.
  — Outdoor Life, 16 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024