How to Use gremlin in a Sentence

gremlin

noun
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  • 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 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
  • Braking Braking is a common gremlin for hybrid vehicles, which use a mix of regenerative and friction braking.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017

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