Sentence examples for whatsit from inspiring English sources

CROTON-ON-HUDSON Croton Point Nature Center "Whatsit?" Explore the pond, fish, tadpoles and water bugs in old clothes and shoes.

Now, the truth is that most of the groups they feature don't grab me; de gustibus non whosit whatsit, or something.

Or his conversations with Jeeves: "Dash it, it's like piling whatsit upon whatsit!" "Pelion on Ossa, sir?" William Boyd has recently published his fake James Bond to acclaim.

The movie is thin and tepid... "What Planet Are You From?" offers a great many jokes about sex without itself being very sexual — it's a little dry, a little distant, and, after a while, as the mirthless jokes pile up and the vibrating whatsit is heard for the tenth time, the movie seems a smug and awfully safe way of talking dirty.

If you thought I was exaggerating the influence of the Strokes when I mentioned them in my best of 2008 whatsit, I offer The Takeover UK as evidence that the Strokes have become a meme of the aughts just as Pavement was a meme of the nineties.

For that matter, the nuclear drama of "Kiss Me Deadly," from 1955, with its quest for the tiny "great whatsit," suggests not just the ambient menace of catastrophe but the oddness of its arising from infinitesimal causes.

And inevitably, there's a fair share of plain, gross, look-at-me stuff, on the order of Anselm Reyle's wall-filling, Warholy whatsits.

That same candidate, asked about global warming, said: "We don't know if this climate change whosie-whatsit is man-made or if it's just a natural part of the End of Days".

Even so, the sex scenes in my book do not read like a car-engine assembly line, with thrusting, gleaming pistons sliding into sweetly lubricated whatsits, and they never will.

Its designer is young, too, a barely 30-year-old Belgian-Italian by the name of Anthony Vaccarello, whose gambit consists of suctioned-in cocktail dresses clanging with metal whatsits, very much in the very Versace mould of Gianni and Donatella's finest.

Pure pleasure steamrolled categorical distinctions between big, dapper abstract painting and small, jaunty ceramic whatsits.