How to Use gremlin in a Sentence

gremlin

noun

• Then this Texas gremlin might be for you.
  — Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
• Not like a law breaker; more like a gremlin.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
• Is there a gremlin running around bleeding air from out tires?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• Don’t let fear of your inner gremlins stop you from self-work to level up your life.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
• Don’t let fear of your inner gremlins stop you from self-work to uplevel your life.
  — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Dinner severely lacks salt, and the salt gremlin at the back of my brain is not happy.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The gremlins come out; the edifices crumble; the saucy doubts and fears triumph.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
• Almost like a gremlin, the same creature that appears small and tiny then molts its skin and then becomes huge.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Digital broadcasts are in their infancy, and this one came with a few gremlins.
  — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The only thing that would satisfy the gremlin in me is the ruination of my freedom.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The popularity of the petite gremlins has spawned fakes.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025
• Need to power through dinner and bedtime with children who have seemingly turned into gremlins?
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
• Yet in their original form gremlins are alive and well, living under new names—daemons, worms, virtual pets.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024
• Of course, chaos ensues when those rules are broken, unleashing a horde of mischievous, destructive gremlins on his small town.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 22 Dec. 2025
• The film does land a few, including a primo gag that involves gremlins running a nightmarish airline.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• That’s why the financial problems in the school district keep multiplying like gremlins.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• 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
• My current gremlin is that the mic on my Logitech Brio webcam doesn’t always transmit sound.
  — Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Rather, those little, unseen gremlins just proliferate in silence.
  — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026
• The fluffy, gremlin-style dolls—hailed both cute and creepy—became a fashion trend and collectible over the last few months, with celebrities and social media fueling the fire.
  — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
• The herculean effort of moving my body even one tiny inch was rewarded by an invisible gremlin twisting a steak knife even deeper into my back.
  — Marisa Cohen, Parents, 12 Aug. 2023
• Some gremlins can be unraveled with linear problem-solving, a prowess possessed by AI.
  — Chip Bell, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• After those rules are broken, the gremlin spawns more of its kind and end up wrecking havoc on Billy’s hometown during Christmas.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
• 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