How to Use contraption in a Sentence

contraption

noun

• The people wondered how the contraption worked.
• 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
• This handy contraption is a classy way to tote around your favorite six-pack.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
• 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
• But the contraption failed to catch on, perhaps because smells could travel back up the pipe.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• 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
• Cage: Twisted wire contraption that wraps the bottle’s lip and surrounds the cork.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• Then there’s the ace up his sleeve, a huge contraption on wheels that is armed with scores of arrows strapped to fireworks, ready to be lit and launched.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
• So tell us about this crazy firework–arrow contraption that Leah lights off at the very end.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Another tows the groomer, a large steel contraption designed to shave down moguls.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
• Now dip the contraption in a ceramic slurry again and again.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• The tears are flooding down her face, via a contraption the crew has installed on Gardner's face.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• My life is filled with rigid, unwieldy contraptions: strollers, car seats, high chairs — a parents’ world.
  — Yewande Komolafe, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The food might be cooked in a smoker — a contraption that can resemble a grill — or in a pit, or on a spit rotating over a flame.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• This contraption is capable of making safe passage through the Fold, so long as no one makes a sound or lights a lantern.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• The strange wearable contraption seen above might look like something coming out of a sci-fi movie, perhaps the early days of the Borg hive in Star-Trek.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Mar. 2022
• The clunky but effective contraption was resting just outside on the ship’s main deck.
  — Nicholas Turner, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2022
• In the clearing, Addy spotted a cardboard contraption, criss-crossed with tape, pressed up against a fir tree.
  — Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• The contraption is easy to transport and designed for indoor or outdoor use.
  — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2022
• Diligently paint on that prostaglandin analog, in the form of a product like Latisse, and then clamp on Beldue's contraption.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
• To demonstrate, Sarah, like a pizzaiola tossing a pie, flips a large sheet of spinach dough onto the clunky old contraption.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• The consensus among the group was that the newfangled contraption would never amount to anything.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 2022
• There are water pipes in each room, many of them connected to some sort of moving contraption.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• That twisted wire contraption wrapping the bottle’s lip and encompassing the cork is the cage.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
• It’s for that one person in a booth who is holding a small, gun-like contraption with colored mist squirting out one end.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• In his video about building the contraption, Frodo safely makes it down the stairs on the elevator's first trip.
  — Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• Word about this handy contraption started spreading when @livecomposed posted a video using the mop with soap and water to clean their walls.
  — Heath Owens, Good Housekeeping, 10 Apr. 2022
• The whole contraption weighs under 1.5 pounds, and the foam head can release from the handle for compact storage: The handle snaps into two brackets on the back of the foam head.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
• That’s a goal, building a new contraption, a new company.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024