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Example sentences for "gimmick"

Lexicographically close words:
gime; giment; gimlet; gimlets; gimme; gimp; gin; ginerally; ginetan; ging
  1. Vacuum Tube Transport has pulled a gimmick out of the hat and things have pickled for us.

  2. The original apparatus--the one I burnt--no doubt had a very fine gimmick to break a heavy current flow without making an arc.

  3. It had two very simple controls, and a highly ingenious gimmick which kept it from turning itself on by accident.

  4. I didn't tumble to the pixie's gimmick for a whole month, then I picked up the phone one day and the old man spilled the news.

  5. In fact, every other department head had some gimmick he was trying to push to get personal recognition.

  6. He said unhappily, "We need a gimmick to climax all this.

  7. You dreamed up that fancy glider gimmick and sold it to old Baron Haer.

  8. Some kind of gimmick to bring you absolutely to the top.

  9. You're going to keep up with me, drink for drink, until I can eyeprint that gimmick of yours--or else I stop drinking.

  10. And they'd force me to shut my eyes tight the second that gimmick got too close to them.

  11. He knew from the word that the scientist had immediately spotted some reason why his gimmick wouldn't work.

  12. We'd need several contestants, because the gimmick could be worked on every big money quiz.

  13. We'll have to gimmick it next time it opens.

  14. I've got to get out and find the machine, and see if I can gimmick it so it'll work backward, send us home.

  15. In this particular instance we won't need a history-reversing gimmick at all, because what we'll see and hear is NOW.

  16. If you can't find his gimmick in half a day, I'll come out and show it to you.

  17. Then you've got to waste a lot of time looking for the gimmick if you're going to follow it through.

  18. Crystal dimensions must be held to tolerances of little more than the thickness of a molecule--" The gimmick to fool him and cheat him.

  19. But you promised to show me the gimmick if I couldn't find it in half a day.


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    Other words:
    action; affair; angle; answer; apparatus; architecture; argument; art; article; artifact; artifice; atmosphere; background; blind; bluff; catastrophe; catch; characterization; chicanery; color; complication; concern; conspiracy; continuity; contraption; contrivance; coup; craft; curve; deceit; denouement; design; development; device; dodge; effort; episode; expedient; fable; feint; fetch; gadget; gambit; game; gimcrack; gimmick; implement; improvisation; incident; instrument; intrigue; jigger; joker; knavery; line; makeshift; maneuver; means; measure; mood; motif; move; movement; mythos; novelty; object; pass; plan; play; plot; ploy; racket; recognition; resort; resource; ruse; scheme; shift; slant; sleight; solution; something; step; story; stratagem; strategy; stroke; structure; subject; subterfuge; switch; tactic; theme; thing; tone; tool; topic; trick; trickery; trump; turn; twist; utensil; wile