How to Use thingy in a Sentence

thingy

noun
  • That weird cross-over bow tie thingy: this isn’t a charter school in Bermuda, people.
    Jill Kargman, Town & Country, 2021-07-07
  • Next, everyone heads out to a club-lodge-cabin thingy that genuinely looks like a good time.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 2021-04-16
  • Microsoft’s new $1,400 book-like phone-tablet thingy is not ready for me and not ready for...
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 2020-09-10
  • Grip the handlebars and in one, flowing movement swing your entire leg up, up, above hip height, above that bar thingy, and flop it over onto the other side.
    Emma Brewer, The New Yorker, 2021-06-22
  • There’s a quiet catharsis in putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and creating a poem, short story or other literary thingy.
    Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 2021-11-19

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