How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

noun

• The people wondered how the contraption worked.
• The contraption is on the second model in the yellow dress in the video below.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 4 July 2018
• Next came the pavement-removing machine, a long, loud contraption that crept along on tank treads.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
• It’s made at an even lower temperature than cold brew, thanks to the use of ice in the tower-like contraption.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• Callans gestures to the small, dark patches, each connected by a wire to an unseen contraption.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• Most of them fired homemade mortars, while others wielded makeshift guns, small contraptions welded from metal pipes.
  — Caroline Houck, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
• So schools cops and educators have to drift through a bazaar of school safety products, testing out strange contraptions that maybe, possibly, could keep a student alive.
  — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 30 July 2018
• This strange contraption looks like a soft fleece scarf but contains a lightweight metal support that rests on your shoulder and holds your head in the perfect position for a comfy night’s sleep.
  — Janna Irons, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
• The flying contraption seats two people—Fritz, who got his pilot’s license for this very purpose, and one of the two foster parents, who trade off on sky duty.
  — Carin Leong, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2024
• In an era of smartphones, fitness tracking watches and always-listening speakers, there’s no shortage of contraptions to wake us up via an assortment of sounds.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
• That video contraption was the only real frill in an otherwise modest production — a show designed to let Styles’ music and charisma carry the load.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
• She was filmed in a camp for the displaced in Syria's northwestern Idlib province walking around on contraptions her father made from tuna cans, plastic tubes and fabric.
  — Zeynep Bilginsoy and Mehmet Guzel, Fox News, 8 July 2018
• 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
• The contraptions were light and cheap, costing about $350 each.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024