As Miss Russell, the queen of sweater girls, explained in her 1985 autobiography, the "ridiculous" contraption hurt so much that she wore it only a few minutes.

They've been gallivanting around the universe in one of those ridiculous contraptions.

According to Russell, the "ridiculous" contraption was painful and she secretly wore her own bra during the movie.

I went around his ridiculous contraption and climbed the ladder of the ship, Roscoe climbing close behind me.

I do not need this ridiculous contraption and I will not wear it.

M'Artois, who sat in a ridiculous contraption of plastic which threatened to collapse under his weight at any moment, nodded.

"And if you want to avert a nasty scene, shove her back into that ridiculous contraption and take her away."

Most of them had been believed destroyed-the ships of those days had been ridiculous contraptions, running on primitive atomic or matter-antimatter drives.

She wrote that the "ridiculous" contraption hurt so much that she wore it only a few minutes.

I could see that he was not even half convinced that any such ridiculous contraption could make a canoe move through the water.