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Use gadget in a sentence

Definition of gadget:

  • (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

Sentence Examples:

"These gadgets aren't telepathic, honey."

They detonate explosives, those little gadgets!

The skipper's patent gadget saved us.

For every stunt an appropriate countering gadget.

Jim got out his little eavesdropping gadget.

The gadget became a bristling porcupine of test clips.

That gadget on your arm is connected to a polygraph.

His gadget gets real coy and answers in riddles.

"Not without one more gadget," the skipper added amiably.

He took out his hypodermic gadget and came toward me.

Their lives are cluttered with gadgets and fringe benefits.

The airman's "joystick" is a gadget; the tank is not.

Being reasonable, they resorted to gadgets or chemicals or continence.

Tiny wire gadgets expanded his mouth to a gaping slit.

"Lend a hand, so we can deliver this gadget before sundown."

They climbed inside then to admire the upholstery and shining gadgets.

It wasn't any radar-responder gadget making it veer away from my ship.

The old guy sort of grins and fiddles with the gadget.

The thug paused and withdrew Toffee's thought gadget from his pocket.

Actually, though, a small gadget outside the hull began to cough rhythmically.

As he spoke, the congressman turned the gadget absently in his hand.

A greenish glow came from the housing that surrounded the Q-shaped gadget.

"This doesn't look like the ordinary gadget racket to me," Wheeler said uneasily.

Then, if you happen to stub your toe over some useful gadget, they increase your pay.

Going down to your basement and tinkering with a gadget is fine in our culture.

When the Chief came in, both the boys were busy dismantling the gadget.

I hoe potatoes and corn, dig garbage pits, make tables and bookshelves, fix gadgets.

The congressman bent his shaggy head close over the gadget and examined it minutely.

"He was running all over the auditorium testing your voice with one of his gadgets."

"I wonder if anyone ever kept one of these gadgets burning all night," he said sourly.

"The question is," Scotty remarked, "did they take the gadget to the octopus cave?"

On Renown a score of "gadgets" had been prepared for the fun of the children.

The air frame and propulsion people can keep on, because they don't use the gadgets.

Housework is something for gadgets to take care of, with maids to run the gadgets.

We've plenty of gadgets aboard the airship, and I guess another won't make much difference.

I'd like to have the guy by the throat who invented this gadget, he muttered.

Wheeler carefully wrapped the gadget in a chamois and stuffed it back in the box.

The contestants could wear the gadget strapped to their legs, under their skirts or trousers.

Scattered here and there in staggering confusion were the machines, the gadgets, the unknown things.

I can now field strip and reassemble every one of your blasted gadgets in the dark.

"I get this guy to tell us how to make his gadgets," the skipper explained contemptuously.

William afflicted their gun teams with his little Hotchkiss gadget, then prepared to gallop them.

"Well, this is going to take some studying," Professor Jordan muttered, looking rather awed at Jim's gadget.

Others involved complicated little gadgets that ran over his body, while meters bobbed and wiggled.

"I thought that you just snip out a tiny specimen with a little gadget, to make a diagnosis."

He didn't want to be forever adapting to new gadgets, new fads, new ways of doing things.

We've got proof that a human being is nothing more nor less than a simple cybernetic gadget.

It was a small, complicated structure of curving pipes and gadgets and smooth, leering faces of glass.

"Well, Captain Hendricks, this is some gadget you have dreamed up out of your Project Warp," he breathed shakily.

He reset his gadget as surreptitiously as possible under the circumstances, and put his money on thirteen again.

Lines went up, power was generated, and a flood of electrical gadgets and appliances hit the market.

He took the tester from the scientist and climbed into the sedan, holding the gadget on his lap.

He left two thousand on thirteen, raked in the rest, and twisted the dial on his gadget over a notch.

While the boys relaxed sleepily, he went to a closet and brought out a case and a leather gadget bag.

Penny tried to pass the time by examining the many gadgets with which the great truck was equipped.

I'd have continued revolving as a human satellite forever, of course, but for this emergency gadget hooked to my belt.

Throwing himself toward Toffee, he received the full impact of both the gavel and the gadget, one to the ear.

"Now, if you'll just explain these gadgets," she said, moving her hand over the panel embedded with digit-rimmed dials.

The flap was fastened down into place with a gadget that seemed to work on the principle of a soldering iron.

It had even been said that much of the vital life stuff of the one portrayed was imprisoned in the crystalline gadget.

The gadget contained two slender tubes which fitted into the nostrils and supplied them with oxygen from shoulder tanks.

This little gadget sends out a field in the shape of such a strip, a band with a half twist before rejoined.

"I know three cadets that could build that gadget in half the time it's taken you just to figure out the theory!"

There was a sudden shivering tingle in his thumb, in the gadget he was holding, running all up and down his arm.

"Now if you'll turn off this beastly little gadget and let me have some privacy I'll talk to you when we get there."

I might refuse financial backing, but you could sell any one of those gadgets for close to a billion dollars and finance the expedition independently, or you could, with your names, request the money publicly and back it that way.

Without waiting for Freddy Farmer to catch up, he slid into the pit, ran anxious eyes over the instrument panel and other gadgets, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that all was in readiness for the take-off.

I had been so certain that the missing gadgets would give me a motive for the attack on Leo's brother, or at least the method of inflicting the fantastic wound, that I was about ready to turn in my badge in frustration.

It did not occur to him that his superiors might be trying frantically to break his sending beam to demand that he find out how Lon Simpson made his power gadget and how he converted vegetation, before it was too late.

No matter how well-intentioned I might be, or how long I stuck at it, the chances are that I never could learn to drive a car simply by sitting in the seat alone and fooling around among the gadgets until I found the right ones.