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contraption
noun as in device
Strongest matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
For now, the team has only tested the contraption one scent at a time.
It’s a contraption that includes electric thrusters that can autonomously stabilize a litter that’s dangling from a helicopter.
They aren’t revealing design details of the contraption yet, although a rendering shows a plane with six propellers and a V-shaped tail.
They can be fairly complicated contraptions, costing up to a few hundred dollars.
Its newer bike, one with a contraption that allows users to move the display screen so they can do workouts off the bike, met with enormous demand, adding to the pressure on Peloton.
Rosina, when she saw me cooling, had no such merciful contraption ready.
The wrestling worthy accessory is a bit of a misnomer—there is no cheekily exposed skin in this full-coverage contraption.
The gun range is nothing alarming—a plastic contraption with a toy pistol aiming at a series of targets a few feet away.
I parked the stroller at the base of the metal slide and wrestled Julia in her bulky snowsuit out of the belted contraption.
Called “Hövding,” the simple-looking contraption takes its cue from car airbags.
None of them had ever seen a piano before and June must play the "shiny contraption" and sing a song.
Jordde held something like a black whip in his hand, only the end went to a box-like contraption strapped to his back.
Four spindly legs led up to a globular body encased in a harness-like contraption.
I niver knowed that ye could shoot a bear with a shmall contraption like that black box.
It lay along a flat sheet of perforated steel––the homeliest contraption imaginable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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