Marguerite pointed to a boxlike metal contraption off by the far bulkhead.

The stage director in him felt that the old-fashioned metal contraptions would make just the right props for suggesting the hose-handling of mental patients.

Charley held up his hand, showing a shiny metal contraption.

A small metal contraption, all springs and twisted metal, fell out.

There was nothing so irritating as having that clumsy metal contraption forever making free with your front name.

In the beginning, you are sitting there in full light looking at a strange metal contraption in the center of the round auditorium.

As the metal contraption rose on its hydraulic legs, I took note of exactly which directions its four cameras were facing.

This metal contraption was not only mindless but soulless as well.

Next he produced a metal contraption that had the appearance of a hot-plate with a small wire cage in the middle.

There was a small open space in the center of this barracks, with a metal contraption in the middle of it.