That "contraption" is a very handsome tricycle with a VW engine. From Wordnik.com. [A Driver's License Renewal from Hell] Reference
"What kind of a contraption is that you've got there, Belding?". From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference
But, seriously, this divine pizza-making contraption is effing coo-el. From Wordnik.com. [I need to renew my passport RIGHT NOW] Reference
“The companion volume explains what that weird contraption is supposed to do!”. From Wordnik.com. [Today's The Day!] Reference
The sheer genius of the mechanical contraption is what has always drawn my attention. From Wordnik.com. [Byrd's Music for Corpus Christi] Reference
This crazy contraption is slated to be Australia's very first carbon neutral office building!. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia's First Carbon Neutral Office | Inhabitat] Reference
The only way a small business can afford such a contraption is to pass this cost on to the consumer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The contraption is meant to facilitate “lucid dreaming,” in which the sleeper is aware of and influences the dream. From Wordnik.com. [Object-Oriented Objects at N.Y.U. - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
This crazy contraption is a wearable sensor unit that uploads its data onto pachube, a kind of info-collection network. From Wordnik.com. [Modular Neuroid: A Personal Pollutant Sensor | Inhabitat] Reference
News sources, the contraption is a headband hair extensions attached to it with Velcro. From Wordnik.com. [Paris Hilton “The Bandit” Launch Party Photos Malibu] Reference
Meanwhile, another reader has spotted this contraption, which is hanging its "filth prophylactic" in shame. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-09-01] Reference
What emerges is a mucilaginous and totally contemptible product, and moreover, the contraption is a nuisance to clean. From Wordnik.com. [Ratio] Reference
The kind of contraption that you'd see in a machine shop. From Wordnik.com. [Lifted] Reference
Do you use TiVo or any such "contraption" to tape TV shows?. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Meme] Reference
I pulled up the grate, used every kind of contraption I could think of to fish it out ... nothing. From Wordnik.com. [red-headed male ISO silver watch calculator] Reference
I thought the dwarf tree could be covered in some kind of contraption for protection better than a larger tree. From Wordnik.com. [Veggie Day Roundup 2009 « Fairegarden] Reference
The starship was ridiculous, the kind of contraption Isambard Kingdom Brunei would have built for Queen Victoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The second contraption is when you pay. From Wordnik.com. [Kushi Q… A Proper Review (with some tech porn for the Nerds) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
Not sure what a "contraption" is but it sounds dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I am in some kind of contraption on my father's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Unassimilable] Reference
I am hypersensitive and can't stand any 'contraption' in my mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
The 'Dead Ringer' spy watch is a clever little contraption which is set to mislead many players. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from PALGN] Reference
He was the first one of his kind of contraption that I ever made and, bein 'as he seemed to bring me luck, I've kept him. From Wordnik.com. [Shavings] Reference
The horses will be forced to run around in circles so as to power some kind of contraption that will generate electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Drudge Retort] Reference
The Taino called the contraption a barbracot. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Signals: From 'barbracot' to big business] Reference
"contraption": a vehicle that can operate on both land and water. From Wordnik.com. [Joystiq] Reference
Jennifer pulled some kind of contraption out of Bob’s Dora backpack. From Wordnik.com. [SPHDZ Book #1!] Reference
On Dec. 16 they jury-rigged their final contraption. From Wordnik.com. [The Transistor] Reference
Not yet, of course: Congress must sign on to this Rube Goldberg contraption. From Wordnik.com. [Ifs, Ands And Butts] Reference
But they used candles instead of electricity and set fire to the contraption. From Wordnik.com. [An American Original] Reference
Faced with the chance to overhaul this obsolete contraption, the Clinton crowd tinkered. From Wordnik.com. [How He Would Govern] Reference
Then the regulatory contraption the two amigos will announce this week might actually work. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing The Next Frontier] Reference
He bought a contraption called a Buckeye, a three-wheeled powered go-cart with a parachute. From Wordnik.com. [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference
All this would be just another Rube Goldberg contraption except for one little - very little - detail. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To Lilliput] Reference
Miyake saw Fujiwara's newfangled contraption as a way to realize his dream, and told the young engineer to keep experimenting. From Wordnik.com. [The Epoch Of A-Poc] Reference
Last year Kimani, 62, saw his neighbor irrigating his crops with an odd contraption that looked like a stripped-down exercise machine. From Wordnik.com. [Waterworks] Reference
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