How to Use gimmick in a Sentence

gimmick

1 of 2 noun
  • The proposal to cut taxes was just an election gimmick to win votes.
  • And should be above this gimmick.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2026
  • And then this was like no gimmicks on it at all.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This wasn’t a one-off gimmick or a quick joke.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Not as a gimmick to please the King.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
  • This will be kind of a fun gimmick for the story.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Street art in these hotels is not a gimmick.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But the moment was more than a gimmick.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That sounds like a gimmick, and this is not a gimmick.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Avoid the gimmicks and stick with the classics.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no gimmick to that type of tension.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Some dismissed it as a gimmick.
    — Phil Lodico, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • There are no gimmicks, there’s no learning curve.
    — James Raia, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Its size isn’t a business gimmick, though.
    — Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The square movement isn’t a gimmick.
    — Stephen Watson, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Haislmaier views TrumpRx as more than a gimmick.
    — Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Mone is in the midst of a belt collector gimmick.
    — Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • But others view the show as a gimmick that should have been avoided.
    — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • At the time, the appointment was seen as a gimmick.
    — Harvard Business Review, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But few things are more boring than lists which fall prey to this timing gimmick.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • For the fans, though, leaning into the gimmick seems to be part of the point.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There’s no gimmicks or bells and whistles to this story.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, not all gear is created equal; gimmicks abound.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside, 20 Nov. 2025
  • But don’t feel pressured to pay extra for gimmicks.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Weighing between a half-pound and a pound, they weren’t added as a gimmick.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
  • This is becoming the best gimmick in wrestling.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Paris Fashion Week is no stranger to a gimmick.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • What may seem like a gimmick at first actually makes a lot of sense.
    — New Atlas, 2 July 2026
  • The Cavs are now too big in the backcourt for any gimmick defense.
    — Ngwa Numfor, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The gimmick was that owners had to be macho or their cards could be revoked.
    — James Bandler, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023

gimmick

2 of 2 verb
  • Soon, promoters added drag races, small jumps, and gimmicks like tug-of-war.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • None of these gameplay gimmicks land unless the story and the heart are there too.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 30 June 2026
  • California needs steady revenue, not gimmicks that trade short-term applause for long-term problems.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • With limited announce to release timelines, the goal for this rollout was music first, gimmick last.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This Swedish brand has built an empire that’s all about obsessive engineering, never gimmicks.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a seriousness to the program now, a sense that Oregon doesn’t need tricks or gimmicks to get people’s attention.
    — Austin Meek, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
  • But this requires much more reliable AI models—not gimmicks such as large language models that can write Shakespearean sonnets.
    — Daron Acemoglu, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Mainline Mario games are often defined by a novel central mechanic, or gimmick, with the more effective ones unlocking a fresh angle on the franchise and the platformer as a genre.
    — Keep Mario Weird, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Depending on the precise circumstances under which the United Kingdom leaves the EU, nationalists or unionists will be in a far stronger position to gimmick the long-term odds in their favor.
    — Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Pat Brown gimmicked the accounting system to escape raising taxes again before Republican Ronald Reagan ousted him in 1966.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
  • Taproom sales surge when CCW shows up, letting patrons witness professional wrestling with larger-than-life characters and gimmicks synonymous with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026

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