How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

noun

• The people wondered how the contraption worked.
• The minute one falls, the whole contraption starts to go.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 23 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Godfrey got the idea to alter a toy football and add that to the contraption.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al.com, 18 June 2019
• That sounds like a blow to the concept of the EmDrive, but Woodward is not ready to close the case on the contraption just yet.
  — National Geographic, 22 May 2018
• Instead of the sticks or drinking straws used with apes, the ravens got small rocks as tools to open the boxy contraption.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 13 July 2017
• The contraption is on the second model in the yellow dress in the video below.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 4 July 2018
• The contraptions were light and cheap, costing about $350 each.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• But can someone build a contraption that could carry me up to the top?
  — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2018
• Once in orbit, the contraption will be far enough away to look like a star to telescopes back on Earth.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 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
• But most of all, parents should keep an eye on their kids and get them out fast if the contraption starts to collapse.
  — Elisabeth Leamy, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
• Cage: Twisted wire contraption that wraps the bottle’s lip and surrounds the cork.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• Once the contraption was in place, tilting his wrist up caused his arm to raise, bending at the elbow.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2019
• Van Dien's entire body and face were covered in a caped contraption to look like the upper torso riding a horse without a head.
  — Stacy Lambe, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
• The company’s Ping-Pong robots take up an entire room, and there are only three; the researchers had to invent a Rube Goldberg contraption using fans, funnels, and hoppers to feed loose balls back into robot-vs.-robot games.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Mar 2025