How to Use widget in a Sentence
widget
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There is now an extra small size for widgets.
—Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 June 2026
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Ten more workers gets you ten more widgets.
—Martin Casado, Fortune, 20 May 2026
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Each widget style will focus on a live game, if there is one.
—PC Magazine, 16 Sep. 2025
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This will also affect the clock and widgets on the lock screen.
—David Nield, Popular Science, 21 Sep. 2023
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Just stick it to your home screen, press the widget, and hold your phone up to the speaker.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
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Swipe up to choose from clock styles, swipe to the side to look at photos, and add widgets.
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
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This widget notes the last update time at the center.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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Pin the stock widget and watch the market movement right on the screen.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2020
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Sadly, there is no perfect widget out there.
—Jess Bryant, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
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Sadly, there is no perfect widget out there.
—Jess Bryant, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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Sadly, there is no perfect widget out there.
—Jess Bryant, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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No-one wants to sell you a widget, then move on to find more people to sell more widgets to.
—Verity Burns, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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Tap on Reorder at the top to change the order of the widget list.
—David Nield, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
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The largest option is a square 4-by-4 widget that takes up about half of the screen.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
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The first is home screen widgets for the Google Fit mobile app.
—Nick Statt, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
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Imagine a town with two widget merchants.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2025
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To add a widget to your iPhone’s home screen, find a blank spot and hold down your finger.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
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The next version of my homescreen is going to be all widgets, no apps.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
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The biggest thing on the default home screen is a weather widget.
—Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 21 Jan. 2021
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But the chat rooms and widgets give viewers a chance to ask questions in real time.
—Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
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Rather, the top free iPhone app of the week is a widget called Locket.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 Jan. 2022
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For even easier access, add the clock widget to one of your phone’s home screens.
—David Nield, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2021
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All picks are straight win/loss with no spread (Enter via the widget below).
—Jason Hoffman, Cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
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The widgets beat the leaders — until the empire can’t adapt.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
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Put the wrong widget into the wrong dashboard and production may grind to a halt.
—Will Knight, Wired, 1 July 2020
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To add a widget, tap and hold on an empty part of the screen and then tap the plus in the upper left corner.
—Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
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The simplest thing to do is to disable the widget area entirely.
—Justin Pot, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
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There's the new lock screen layout, but even that feels like a half-step toward a return to lock screen widgets.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2023
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One way is via iCUE's widget support.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
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To find a cooling center near you, scroll the map and zoom using the widget in the top right corner.
—Lily Carey, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
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