The smart phone is a really amazing device, but it is a bad idea to hold one next to your brain for extended periods of time.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.