"Lou had hoped the car trip would go smoothly, but Larry's old contraption had problems from the start."
"The antenna for his Satellite Television was a wobbly contraption made from an aluminum pie plate."
I don't know what you call that contraption, but it works!
Rube Goldberg is infamous for his convoluted contraptions. Kindly remove your dilapidated contraption from the road at once!
Inventors are always trying to come up with some new contraption which will turn out to be in great demand by the general public.
"Contraption" is perhaps a blend of "contrivance", "trap", and "invention".
That is the correct spelling of the noun "contraption" (an odd machine or gizmo).
Get that contraption off the road! I haven't any spare time to work on your contraption this week.
Example sentence - We could not figure out what the odd contraption was used for or where it came from.
The people felt that the computer was a newfangled contraption
I made a neat contraption for science class.
I don't know what you call that contraption, but it works!
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Contrapion is not a word in the English language. Contraption is a word. A sentence that uses contraption could be, "Henry rigged up a contraption to catch mice".
Rube Goldberg is infamous for his convoluted contraptions. Kindly remove your dilapidated contraption from the road at once!
The do it yourself handyman devised a contraption to measure the amount of rainfall in his apple orchard.
Inventors are always trying to come up with some new contraption which will turn out to be in great demand by the general public.
A contraption is another word for a (contrived) device, so a sentence with that word could be, " In order to bend the wooden strips into the shape of the canoe we were building, I had to first steam them and then place them in a CONTRAPTION called a 'jig', which put force on the ends to bend them, while holding the center in a fixed position."
The magician's performance was amazingly impressive, leaving the audience in awe.