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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But with technology comes glitches, and on the first night of its stint at Brooklyn Steel in May, Slowdive was stymied by digital gremlins.
  — Finn Cohen, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017
• That’s why the financial problems in the school district keep multiplying like gremlins.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• With the race looming the following Friday, the team spent the few remaining hours turning their electrical gremlins into lawn gnomes.
  — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• Also at Hotel Madrid and kind of resembling a gremlin is a Baby Yoda mural.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2019
• The film does land a few, including a primo gag that involves gremlins running a nightmarish airline.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• Miller’s take on the classic gremlin tale is truly horrifying.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2019
• Need to power through dinner and bedtime with children who have seemingly turned into gremlins?
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
• Having taken pole at Mid-Ohio, O’Ward bowed out just past the halfway point with yet another mechanical gremlin.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2022
• Aye-aye lemurs look a bit like gremlins, with pronounced, clawed middle fingers, and these primates’ hands have been fascinating scientists for years.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• But an electrical gremlin kept the seatback angle locked at a too-relaxed recline, leaving the steering wheel at an uncomfortable distance.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
• Another classic, but this one is a non-controversial pick because those gremlins are menacing AF.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
• An exhaust fire ultimately put an end to that car's race on Sunday morning, with the sister machine retired shortly afterward due to electrical gremlins.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2018
• That’s the anti-charm of these trucks, the myriad potential electrical gremlins on obsolete out-of-production components.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024