contraption
Example Sentences
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The machine that X-rayed her breast was more comfortable than the cold hard contraption she remembered.
From Los Angeles Times
Duane also didn’t know that the contraption standing beside the man was an easel, and the square of white sitting upon it was an empty canvas.
From Literature
To give the cradle a little bit of bounce, he tied the ropes to two cultivator springs and hung the whole contraption to the bows inside the covered wagon.
From Literature
In this photograph, the contraption’s legs can be glimpsed jutting out from behind Lincoln’s knees; it had been placed on a black box to extend its reach.
The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.
From Los Angeles Times
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