whatsit

Example Sentences

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“The sight of these empty dams have scared the whatsit out of everybody.”

From The Verge • May 11, 2018

Besson’s latest futuristic whatsit, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” seems determined to induce the opposite effect in the viewer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2017

The sad and stingingly painful “Anomalisa,” a beautiful big-screen whatsit, features a throng of whiners, malcontents and depressives along with one bright soul who hasn’t let disappointment break her.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2015

In my 2007 Prius, I'm afraid to change the oil lest I confuse the whosit that controls the whatsit and makes the dealybob do whatnot.

From Economist • Aug. 8, 2013

“And I like your—the—the whatsit on your head.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs