(1) My new contraption simulated smoking, I learned, through a battery which heated and vaporised liquid nicotine in water and propylene glycol.
(2) Anja Vestergaard brings out the robot and I come foot-to-wheel with the contraption that is supposedly revolutionising Denmark's care for the elderly.
(3) The bike is hideous, a vast contraption with an illuminated panel that flashes your heart-rate at you.
(4) Over the last few years, at the kinds of conferences where the world's technological elite gathers to mainline caffeine and determine the course of history, Google has entertained the crowds with a contraption it calls Liquid Galaxy .
(5) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(6) In the build-up to the Broncos game, Tomsula made Okoye take on blockers inside this contraption.
(7) British artist Matt Hope has designed a “breathing bicycle” , a home-made Heath Robinson-style contraption that filters air as you pedal along and feeds it through a tube into a fighter-pilot breathing mask.
(8) Originally released as an unfinished beta version, players had to wade through software bugs and mechanical uncertainties, using the game's complex crafting system to build homes and contraptions, but having to share information on what worked where – there was no tutorial.
(9) You can see the bite marks.” Clapper sits me down at a conference table with some chocolate biscuits and begins puffing on a black contraption with a window through which I can see a yellow-brown liquid sloshing.
(10) The device the doctor held in his hand was not a contraption you expect to find in a rural hospital near the banks of the Nile.
(11) Known as bathing machines, and looking like beach huts on wheels, these contraptions became a ubiquitous feature of the Victorian seaside, helping to protect the modesty of generations of our forebears until it became socially acceptable to walk across the beach in a bathing costume.
(12) Photograph: Robert Goddyn Architecture Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age From the glamorous glazed living rooms of Californian Case Study houses, perched precipitously above the twinkling lights of 1950s LA, to the rusting contraptions of the German industrial belt, this expansive survey of architectural photography will show a broad cross-section of images from the 1930s to the present day.
(13) Looking further afield, both in distance and eccentricity, the Malaysian entries include an invention to make cows more conspicuous at night and a complex gadget that finds the end of a roll of adhesive tape, while Adam Ben-Dror of New Zealand offers a contraption that allows bored or lonely goldfish "to roam freely on land" inside a tank with wheels.
(14) We see the moment Reese volunteers to save John Connor’s mother – and his future kind-of girlfriend – and then he gets blasted back to 1984 in a massive, and I mean massive , blue time-travel light-beam contraption.
(15) In a best-case scenario, the contraption should be operational by Monday.
(16) As a vision of the imminent future, it might strike a chill into Europhobic hearts: a German contraption measuring 140 metres (460ft) in length, designed to drive into the very core of the City within months.
(17) Culture A bunch of Mayan villagers are hanging out in the jungle, improbably hunting big game with a zany Indiana Jones-style contraption that looks like a giant sideways meat tenderiser.
(18) Over the next few days cranes will attempt to lower the 100-tonne contraption around 5,000ft (1,500 metres) to the sea floor and position it over a leaking pipe that has been gushing 210,000 gallons of crude a day into the Gulf.
(19) He didn’t succeed, but one of his contraptions did develop into the heart-lung machine so crucial for open-heart surgery.
(20) But after the first 10 shots he hit me to the body, covered in this bullet‑proof contraption, I walked away and laughed from deep within my stomach – without noise.
Fandango
Definition:
(n.) A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
(n.) A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.
Example Sentences:
(1) American retailer Fandango said JJ Abrams’s film sold more than eight times as many tickets on its first day of release – Monday – as the previous record holder, 2012’s The Hunger Games.
(2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – six things we learned from the new trailer Read more American retailer Fandango said JJ Abrams’ film sold more than eight times as many tickets on its first day of release – Monday – as the previous record holder, 2012’s The Hunger Games.
(3) Here's Lol Fandango: "How can Immobile be picked for Italy when he played number 10 for England already?"
(4) And if the making of Loveless was a song and dance, then the protracted process that led to its follow-up was a fully fledged fandango.
(5) This week's selection features Savages, Sepalcure and Coyote Clean Up Details here Watch and listen Music Weekly podcast: Coachella festival and Houndmouth Little Bear perform The Few and Far Between at Other Voices 2013 Album stream: The Phoenix Foundation – Fandango London Grammar's live performance of Wasting My Young Years John Grant performs Marz live at Other Voices The Stone Roses: Made of Stone – watch the trailer for Shane Meadows's documentary New music: Laura Marling – Master Hunter Further reading Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me' Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs.
(6) For parents who grew up with Star Wars toys, this is an incredible bonding experience,” said Erik Davis, managing editor of Fandango and father of two.
(7) 2) Are there any English readers secretly hoping that Fabio Capello's team go out after grinding another dull draw today, so we can all forget about the grim fandango of the No Surrender brigade, St George bowler hats, ridiculous front page tabloid covers and all sorts of other England-related embarrassments for a couple of years?
(8) While Mourinho was at great pains to avoid getting tangled up in another conspiracy fandango so early in the season, in the wider analysis Chelsea sent out mixed messages here.
(9) Records were broken on both sides of the Atlantic , with the US retailer Fandango reporting advance ticket sales eight times higher than for any other film on its first day of release, and the studio Disney claiming that more than 200,000 tickets were sold in 24 hours in the UK.
(10) The waitress looks to me to be too scared to come and take it away I accept, or at least I stop arguing, that whatever a woman's economic agency and position in society, she should still make a big fandango about her sexual playfulness and exquisite taste in shoes.
(11) And in the current climate, after the Kids Company fandango , the stakes seem too high for that to be the case.