Sentence example with the word 'contraption'

contraption

apparatus, device, gimcrack, gizmo, implement, means, mechanism, precision tool, thingumabob, thingummy, utensil

Last update: September 23, 2015


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Their behavior was by no means unique to history: In the 1830 Swing Riots of the United Kingdom, farmers vandalized the diabolical labor-saving contraption known as the thresher.   [Please select]

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So I'll explain, as briefly as possible, just what this contraption of mine is.'   [Please select]

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"Say, this is quite a right smart contraption, ain't she."   [Please select]

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"But I told her I'd be scared to death to ride in the fool contraption."   [Please select]

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Also, he made some kind of a contraption that's like the end of your crutch.   [Please select]

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"This contraption is a--er--I--I think Dick calls it an hydro-aeroplane."   [Please select]

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"It's the only contraption that'll ever hold One Ear," he said.'   [Please select]

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And now--just as the vigil seemed ended--she was tormenting him, to nerve-rack, by this contraption she had fastened over his nose.   [Please select]

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"Look here, Will," Tommy said, as he laid down a great armful of dry wood, "some one ought to invent some kind of a contraption to kill these flying pests off by the billion."   [Please select]

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