Sentence examples for thingy in from inspiring English sources

The objective was to familiarise attendees with how and why to use this new cyberspace thingy – in the context of education and for general use.

No, but you could be at the Glasgow Comedy Festival, the largest in Europe (even bigger than that Fringe thingy in another Scottish city that will remain nameless).

Most historical fiction tries to impress the reader with the sophistication of the period it recreates (for some reason my mind jumps here to Gwyneth Paltrow's toothbrush thingy in Shakespeare in Love).

Why can't I do the Google+ equivalent of "blocking" this strange person?" Apparently I wasn't alone on this, as Google has now given Google+ users the ability to control who has the power to up the count on the red blinky notification thingy in the right hand corner of your Plus bar.

Vice: We hear a lot about the whole Cape Flats tik epidemic thingy in the news.

And then we get oil spills, FinReg, Iran, and -- the afterthought -- that whole war thingy, in Afghanistan?

"I had a widget-thingy in Firefox called 'reload every' which let me smugly auto refresh while everyone else was battering F5, but now the playing field has been levelled.

And then we get to give them Perspex award thingies in recognition of their mad skills in variously designated areas.

There were thousands of cops, soldiers and various sleeve-talkers (the guys with microphones in their sleeves and listening thingies in their ears).

From the microscopic thingies in a pail of pond water to the kids lining up for Happy Meals at McDonald's, what we munch, crunch, chomp or chew marks us as indelibly as our DNA.

There was some discussion on some of these XMPP lists, that was about how to do these microblogging thingies in such a way that you can indicate both the user and the site.