How to Use gremlin in a Sentence

gremlin

noun
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, who’s to say a gremlin or a crash isn’t waiting for him in Monterey.
    — Nathan Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2021
  • But as the opening scenes of the Trump era began to play out, these gremlins are springing back to life.
    — Ashley Shelby, Slate Magazine, 2 June 2017
  • Dear Readers: Tonight’s the night for ghosts, gremlins, ghouls and goblins!
    — Heloise, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The gremlins, the ghosts, the whispers, the doubts, all of them, gone in that one 2-minute and 17-second snapshot of excellence.
    — Bob Kravitz, Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Dinner severely lacks salt, and the salt gremlin at the back of my brain is not happy.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Is there a gremlin running around bleeding air from out tires?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Is there a gremlin running around bleeding air from our tires.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • One woman pushed a small orange gremlin-like figure with Trump's face in a stroller.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
  • Segovia said later that the statement did not come from his office, but rather from the city — as if gremlins produced it.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Was this based on some brand-new evidence that the virus mutates like a gremlin, getting worse at night?
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • My love of being a happy little house-gremlin is why no one could get me on a video call—up until a few weeks ago, that is.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Whether that proves to be the case will come down to whether those electrical gremlins are passing flukes or recurring faults.
    — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Gizmo is a nice pet, until of course one of those things happen and the gremlins wreak havoc on an entire town the night before Christmas.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Gizmo is a nice pet, until of course one of those things happen and the gremlins wreak havoc on an entire town the night before Christmas.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Gizmo is a nice pet, until of course one of those things happen and the gremlins wreak havoc on an entire town the night before Christmas.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Gizmo is a nice pet, until of course one of those things happen and the gremlins wreak havoc on an entire town the night before Christmas.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 23 Oct. 2018
  • But there is no question that Comey’s testimony will be damning for Trump, his gremlins in the White House, and the party that defends him.
    — Clio Chang, New Republic, 8 June 2017
  • This three-time repeat has put to rest any lingering suspicions of gremlins in the data.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Digital broadcasts are in their infancy, and this one came with a few gremlins.
    — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • More worrying than Japanese fighter planes is an evil presence—a gremlin—that threatens to tear the plane apart in mid-air.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • One scaly gremlin bites the head off a gingerbread man, with a whole stack of other men awaiting their execution.
    — Tim Carman, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
  • One scaly gremlin bites the head off a gingerbread man, with a whole stack of other men awaiting their execution.
    — Tim Carman, Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Yet in their original form gremlins are alive and well, living under new names—daemons, worms, virtual pets.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024

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