Sentence examples for gizmo like from inspiring English sources

Texans were really peeved a couple of weeks ago, when the Times computer ranked the Longhorns No. 29, the same day both major polls had Texas at No. 2. In fact, the alert reader Allen H. King of Plugerville, Tex., noted, "even a bumpkin like me knows that it is very bad to pour coffee into the orifices of an electronic gizmo like a computer!" Well, don't mess with Texas -- unless you're Oklahoma.

As we get more comfortable with smarter devices and using robots in our day-to-day lives, it's not a huge leap to think a gizmo like Monsieur could take the place of self-service cocktail setups found at bottle service tables in nightclubs.

The effect of watching a film take on the internet is more a case of gizmo versus gizmo; like Black Mirror, its choreography employs all manner of state-of-the-art prestidigitation to make texting feel suspenseful, dramatize mundane clicking, or simulate the giddy nakedness of impulse-posting.

Mr. Melendez was dismayed by the choice of cat food, reminding anyone who cared that Gizmo likes steak and rice and beans.

If indeed the claims are true, then I am first in line for this FDA-approved hair gizmo, because like most other men across the country who are losing their hair, I'm planning on fighting this to the end, screaming in bloody rage, as I look back on my misspent youth and wonder where it all went.

In honor of the Sydney Olympics, for example, the show invited four pop stars to the studio to jog on treadmills that were hooked up to a Rube Goldberg-like gizmo that blew up balloons.

Similar to Skype and the like, Gizmo is completely free and allows you to IM and make calls from your BlackBerry using their own native software.

It also lets you IM and talk to people on Skype, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and any SIP network (like Gizmo).

These days, you can wear on your wrist the Basis Peak Ultimate Fitness and Sleep Tracker, a chunky gizmo that Dick Tracy might like ($199.99).

I was fascinated -- so for $65 I bought a pocket gizmo just like his.

That makes my formerly cool gizmo sound like the tech equivalent of a geezer rock song by Aerosmith.