How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

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  • The people wondered how the contraption worked.
  • The astronauts had to figure out how to fly these contraptions.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 9 July 2019
  • 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
  • The camera contraption is one of the museum’s few actual pieces from the show.
    — Andrew Herrmann, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • While the pods are now replaceable, at first the whole contraption was entirely single-use.
    — National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The contraption starts with the balls moving round a giant Ferris Wheel.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Gonzalez reached up to a low-hanging tree branch and unhooked the wire holding the wooden contraption.
    — Karine Aigner, National Geographic, 25 July 2019
  • As the years went on, a handful of people have conquered the drop in contraptions ranging from steel barrels to giant rubber balls.
    — Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2019
  • To heat meals, the crew used a food warmer tray, a tidy contraption with separate compartments that used conduction to heat meal packages.
    — Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN, 19 July 2019
  • In drops said shadowy threat, an elastic foe with a clownish cackle and a contraption that will end all organic life on earth — that means people, too!
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 July 2019
  • This curved contraption rests nicely on your shoulders, and acts as a personal, virtual assistant.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2019
  • To accommodate the packed room, highballs are served from a machine, a contraption that's ubiquitous now throughout Tokyo.
    — Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The oldest whisky in the world, released earlier this month, should arguably speak for itself but was launched in a spaceship style decanter that can’t pour without a special contraption.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, some members of the public feared riding by themselves in the newfangled contraptions and demanded operators.
    — Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The result was a refrigerator-size contraption of catalysts, tubes, electronics, and filters, assembled a week before the pitch fest.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 July 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 | [email protected], 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

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