Starts to go around Debenham's to buy a handy tool

Usage examples of gadget.

There was handmade pottery bought on consignment from local artisans, selected cookware and bakeware, and hard-to-find kitchen gadgets.

We completely short the input, et cetera, but how do we make with a gadget like that?

That done, the darkish men gathered the discarded shafts that Felber was sending away, along with all stray parts and gadgets.

There were dozens of levers and gadgets that had to be hooked up, and Durand put them in place so rapidly that there was no chance to follow his movements.

I clicked the dial past an endless array of gadgets like Veg-O-Matics and Ginzo knives and tummy-slimmers.

Greco began to putter with gleamy, glassy gadgets on one of the tables and I watched him with, I admit, a certain amount of suspicion.

El Greco began to putter with gleamy, glassy gadgets on one of the tables and I watched him with, I admit, a certain amount of suspicion.

Gadgets wished he had brought a can of methyl isocyanate, known by its trade name of Bhopalocan.

Another sported gadgets like lead water pipes all jumbled and crumbling.

She was fumbling in her purse for her key ring with its remote keyless entry gadget when a pleasant voice stopped her in her tracks.

The boy, agog from the TV, comes romping in squawking with greed for another new thing that this time just has to be bought, to take him out of this good old world fast gadgets and the clothes to go with them, so he will walk in happiness for all of his days.

The basic flight controls, stick, rudders and throttle he could handle adequately, Jmt he had trouble with trim tabs and essential gadgets in more remote corners of the cockpit.

Someone with an inventive turn of mind had rigged a gadget, powered by a float bobbing in the water, which at irregular intervals jerked a clanging sheet of metal against the main boiler to discourage fishingbirds from perching there and smutching the reflectors with their droppings.

Once this gadget, which was called a toposcope, was adjusted to their satisfaction, the monitors left, and the room began to fill with the gray gas.

Jen had fitted it with a gadget that moved the detector rapidly upward at the moment of closest approach of an upbound carrier, to increase the length of time available for getting a measurement of radioactivity.