How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

noun

• 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 | [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

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024