Sentence examples for thingummy from inspiring English sources
The phrase "thingummy" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal.
It can be used when referring to an object or concept whose name you cannot recall or do not want to specify. Example: "I need to find that thingummy I used for the project last week; it was really helpful."
noun
Something one does not remember the name of
There he found a Renaissance music manuscript that he traced to a Bolognese convent — surprising, given the raunchy lyrics of its secular selections: "One day Guillot was with Barbeau and showed her his devilish great thingummy.
He's surprisingly coy, too, about what to call their genitals, settling usually on "thingummy" or private parts - on one troubling occasion, "that monstrous solution of continuity".
And after terribly brief run-ins with Jerome (Brittany, 1987), and Thingummy (Cornwall, 1988), I too came to believe this and staked my claims a little closer to home, with nice, sensible men in nice, sensible jobs who were polite to my mother.
When people ask, 41 winters hence, how we managed to stay married for half a century I will show them my new (or probably, by then, old) app thingummy.
After all, you're still friends on Facebook, so have pretty much kept track of whether they're still with thingummy or how old their kids are.
This is the bra that delivers "a range of cleavage," thanks to a clasp thingummy at your sternum.
There, attaching the widget-wheel to the thingummy-tube will take too long and hold up the entire production line.
Expect plenty of cats and cows in different media, as well as watercolours of beach houses, ersatz Abstract Expressionist paintings, stained glass made for the walls of large suburban houses, baubles and knick-knacks and thingummies galore.
So it is only a matter of minutes before they spot each other, reigniting those "cosmic thingummies" (Amanda's term) that once made their life such hell.
Always opposed to the boundaries between design, architecture and art, he now applies his skills to very large projects – a park in Abu Dhabi, a biomass power station in Teesside, a colossal hotel in Doha, a shopping mall in Hong Kong – as well as to tables, bowls, Christmas cards and sculptural thingummies in public plazas.
And yet, if you are a musician wanting to make one of those antediluvian visual thingummies, you probably don't have much money to work with.
