Sentence examples for a thingy that from inspiring English sources

"And why should we?" cried Toryboy, puce with fury late one night after yet another futile attempt at coaxing a thingy that promises to read the barcodes of all the books in your home (and keep a meticulous record of them all in what we both still vaguely imagine to be literal, usually manila, tiny files and folders) out of the ether and on to his phone.

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Maybe there are enough people willing to pay $20 for a confused Kir Royale thingy that can't decide if it should have pear liqueur or Chambord, so now it has both.

When a contractor or government lab has a missile or some other anti-aircraft thingy that needs testing, they look for drones to blow up.

And she has strong opinions about how to deploy the "thingy" that has become an essential part of 21st century behavior.

With this they've made an installation/song/cool art piece of dance music thingy that sounds and looks ecstatic but doesn't make you want to kill yourself the day after.

Hovering above the Olympic Park on a warm, blue-skied night was the weirdly lovely red plastic thingy that twists towards heaven for no other reason than it looks great, designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond.

Some kind of wraparound vibrating electrical thingy that makes you think you can lose belly fat without doing anything other than switch on and watch it wobble?

Off topic… there's this kick-ass app thingy that tells you what your spirit animal is, and then it turns out to be a celebrity from the eighties.

I apply some By Terry Hyaluronic Face Glow foundation thingy that is far too dark for my usual mortuary pallor, then I try a bit of approximative shading on either side of my nose in the hope I'll look more Nathalie-esque.

Last night, former BP CEO Tony Hayward addressed the students of Cambridge University at the Cambridge Union Society, about that whole "destroying the Gulf Of Mexico" thingy that happened all last summer.