How To Use Gummy In A Sentence

So when I need to know what the black rubbery thingummy on a windscreen wiper is called, I can look up windscreen wiper in the index, turn to the appropriate picture, and learn that it's a wiper blade rubber. The Naming of Parts
Or it might be that kids already know that "a carrot is a carrot is a carrot," she adds, whereas they're not sure how a specific brand of graham cracker or gummy snack will taste.
Caoutchouc, as it exudes from the trees, is a milk-like emulsion, wherein globules of caoutchouc proper are suspended in a gummy solution.
Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette. Adventures in Babysitting, Part 1
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He has gummy gaps in his grin, the result of a stint as a boxer in the 1980s (he moved to Minneapolis in '84, after losing a big match in Fort Dodge, Iowa).
There was a gummy label attached to several sharp shards.
Bees collect this gummy resin from tree sap, flowers, and vegetables, and then mix it with their own beeswax.
I bet there are a few of you that are thinking shark, yuk, but a gummy shark, so named because it has no teeth, is probably the most popular fish in Victoria, served as it is in every fish 'n' chip shop as flake, which is what the flesh does when cooked and as a bonus, there are absolutely no bones in it. At My Table
Only the gummy ancho chili sauce marred the beauty of the dish.
The cliffs farther east have produced big numbers of pinkies, gummy sharks, mulloway and salmon. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
I found that when I chilled this before baking it (like I usually do for my lasagnes) it got kind of "gummy" (to quote my mother) - I'd bake it ASAP next time. Archive 2008-11-01
Its thick, gummy oil has blackened hundreds of miles of coastline in Spain.
It felt like I had just spent the last two hours gorging on gummy bears.
His eyes were hollow, bleared, and gummy; his face was shrivelled into a thousand wrinkles, his gums were destitute of teeth, his nose sharp and drooping, his chin peaked and prominent, so that, when he mumped or spoke, they approached one another like a pair of nutcrackers: he supported himself on an ivory-headed cane and his whole figure was The Adventures of Roderick Random
Reasonably oaty, but with an ever so slightly gummy sensation. Times, Sunday Times
This recipe produces a cake with a moist, slightly gummy texture, which some of our tasters actually preferred.
Oil made locally for local use is generally not deodorized or otherwise treated, so is somewhat gummy and has a noticeable peanut taste; this is acceptable in, for example, African regional dishes.
It's like you put the stuff down to scrub up the wax and it turns into gummy sticky crap that slows you down 10000%. because it gums up your tools. rigor said: i kinda like the name Bona better than viagra. Fatwallet.com Hot Deals
Guests, yearning for last year's multicourse feast, spent the evening picking through boxes of Dean & Deluca breadsticks and passing around tin cans of Swedish fish and gummy peaches. Geeks, Stars Check In at Webby Awards
With its eyes closed, jaws wide apart and its entire armory exposed in a ghastly gummy smile, its head looked like a necklace of death.
However, when it comes to the old religion and war thingummy, I feel religions get it really, really badly in the neck.
Opium is the brown, gummy exudate of the incised, unripe seedpod of the opium poppy. Notes and Definitions
'It's all over, Mrs. Thingummy! ' said the surgeon at last.
It was David thingummy --- Stevenson --- Dad's clerk of chambers or whatever he is. LOSING IT
Customers also can choose special toppings, such as gummy bears and chocolate chips, for an extra 25 cents. Molly's Cupcakes: "bite-sized pieces of fun"
Too much stabiliser can render a foam gummy. Times, Sunday Times
If you want I have this bathroom i'm putting tile in because ...well it makes a lot of sense for a crip to balance on the edge of a bathtub trying to smooth out this gummy stuff called mastic doesn't it? I have a plan, not just any plan but THE PLAN
Columbia student gastronome Jason Bell first caught the attention of New York Magazine's Grub Street blog for calling Colicchio's gnocchi "gummy" and his bacon "vague," among other verbose critiques. Tom Colicchio vs. Columbia Food Critic
I remember one chill day's evening chow that consisted solely of warmed-over boiled potatoes, gummy macaroni, and milk that had been kept next to something less tasty in the refrigerator.
It's not a very clear picture but that is an ovulation test stick thingummy.
The potato gnocchi tasted suitably homemade and gummy, although the Friulians at the table thought their tagliatelle (covered in a dry ragù) were too thick.
Joined a fishing tour to Waterhouse Tasmania at Easter 2010. We caught plenty of flatheads, gurnards, pikes, kingfish, squids and Katy caught a gummy shark!
But we had to reshoot the scenes at the villa between Judy and the blackmailer, after Arthur's heart attack, with - thingummy - Jeremy Fox. THE SOUND OF MURDER
Oh, just a little ... what shall I say? ... a little touch of what-d'you-call-it and a bit of thingummy. Jill the Reckless
In his opinion the true cause of the alteration of the cauliflower is the humid gangrene, that is to say, a gummy degeneration and putrid fermentation of the tissues, caused by the abundance of manure in the soil and the excess of water in the plant at a time when it is subject to sudden changes of temperature. The Cauliflower
The dog was "blanched" and flavorless, the poppy seed bun was heated in the microwave and gummy, and it didn't have enough celery salt. Mmm-yoso!!!
The bulging eyes and fierce, gummy smile: it was an expression bordering on hysteria, and the intervening years had done nothing to dampen it. The Best American Erotica 2006
Australian sea-side hotel was regularly supplied with young shark -- "gummy" -- by a fisherman, for whose veracity the author can vouch. Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
Blood was running so hard that I got frightened and I called the bellboy … he helped me make a bandage … I’m still wearing it in fact …” She presented her right index finger, wrapped up in a pink gummy strip. The 13 Culprits
His humour is of the sappiest kind with as much bite as a gaggle of gummy grannies.
It may amuse some to find thingummy replaced by doodackie, to hear a sausage called a snarler or to hear he did his bun for ` he was angry '. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
So this newspaper thingummybob (OK, the New York Times, if you're going be annoying like Katie Couric and demand specifics) has managed to find Sarah's personal stylist for the campaign, a woman by the name of Lisa Kline. The Guardian World News
FRUIT: A grey to purple-black, straight or slightly curved indehiscent pod up to 12 cm long by 1.2 cm wide, with a whitish bloom and a gummy pulp. Chapter 7
See, once again one of my posts on this site presages a new trend at the cutting-edge of the doodah thingummybob.
a slick for that purpose, a use to which our nails were afterwards applied with great advantage, and through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is passed, so as to hold the planks strongly together: The seams are caulked with dried rushes, and the whole outside of the vessel is paid with a gummy juice, which some of their trees produce in great plenty, and which is a very good succedaneum for pitch. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Despite the success of the amorphous sugar at inhibiting fat bloom, Hartel says that it could not be used in commercial chocolate because the sugar ‘picks up moisture easily and gives a gummy texture in the mouth’.
The Stoke City boss has admitted to being an admirer of both, but Hit F5 or the auto-update thingummybob for the latest posts. WN.com - Articles related to Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson to star in new Simon Pegg comedy 'Burke and Hare'
Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of gummy saliva, which harden when exposed to air.
Too much stabiliser can render a foam gummy. Times, Sunday Times
Some people just don't get this mobile thingummyjig. Archive 2006-02-01
British band Florence and the Machine perform, with a harp and a guitar and Florence singing some kind of folk number while wearing a long flowing robe thinggummy and standing in a spotlight while dancers pop up on circular pedestals set in the audience, and then begin to gyrate and flap their arms around, then dancing around Florence while the fog machine goes into overdrive until everyone gets the point: It's Druid Disco. 'The Situation' bids 'Dancing With the Stars' a classy farewell as he's eliminated
This recipe produces a cake with a moist, slightly gummy texture, which some of our tasters actually preferred.
He twists his head, exposing one rheumy malevolent eye and half a mottled, gummy mouth.
Turned out that it wasn’t THAT sort of vacuum pump - they don't cost anything like five grand anyway - but a "sous vide" thingummyjig that modern chefs use for poaching a chicken breast for three hours and two minutes at 102. 4° and that sort of mallarkey.) Swingers’ Guide To South Africa
We don't - it's all being done by some start-up venture thingummy company.
The type of fish used doesn't really bother me, here in Victoria it is usually shark, gummy or school shark and is called flake in the shops. Archive 2006-08-01
thingummybob" and her foreman assures her that his son, serving in the RN, has been told of strange vessels with what look like big boxes stacked on the deck sailing towards China. Army Rumour Service
The poet's truth to Nature in his 'gummy' chestnut-buds, and to Art in the 'long green box 'of mignonette -- and that masterful touch of likening the first intrusion of love into the virgin bosom of the Miller's daughter to the plunging of a water-rat into the mill-dam -- these are beauties which, we do not fear to say, equal anything even in Keats. Early Reviews of English Poets
'You get this gummy stuff at the bottom of the tube. Times, Sunday Times
I once bought a thingummy out of one of those catalogues.
Wysing Arts Centre, Sun to 18 MarSkye SherwinFreud's portraits are hard, disquieting things, attuned to the tough reality of bare, veiny sprawling bodies and the jaundiced walls, gummy sheets and cruel furniture around them. This week's new exhibitions
Raw silk fibres are naturally coated with a gummy substance called sericin.
I was a gummy adherent, gobbling gelatinous animal shaped confections like they were going out of style.
'By jove,' I said, 'it's like a sort of thingummybob, isn't it? The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
Only the gummy ancho chili sauce marred the beauty of the dish.
Bakery owners say despite the advent of new-fangled versions, nothing beats the classics, the ones oozing with gummy lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk to symbolize the full moon.
These were pleasantly rubbery but although punctuated by bits of juicy broccoli, Chinese leaves and dusted with ground peanuts, their mild sweet and sour sauce left them too gummy.
I felt like the loaves were almost gummy in texture. Amish Friendship Bread w/ Two Variations
I mean, I think we're looking at a pretty narrow gene pool right here; something about that glassy eyed and gummy smile leads me to believe that everyone sat on the same side of the church at his folks wedding.
Like her, many of the residents are Irish; gummy men with drink problems who ‘emigrated not through choice, stayed though reluctant, and never returned out of pride’.
July 23, 2009 at 9:59 am yeps …. no be calling her gummy yet LOL I will nap… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
We stay in a cheap hotel that has hard, napless, gummy carpeting, like the stuff you sometimes find in the vicinity of indoor swimming pools.
His voice is even more gummy and inexpressive than last time, and he really sounds drugged down into a stupor a lot of the time.
The only evidence was a report that a government-hired ‘expert’ had detected a gummy substance under the consoles of some trains.
Acids dissolve gummy buildup and eat away tarnish.
Using a drop of white craft glue, attach peppermint candies or gummy bears instead of red gumdrops among the green gumdrops.
Mochi is a glutinous rice coating; if you've ever tried Thai sticky rice, it kind of tastes like that (without the coconut flavor) and the consistency is closer to gummy bears.
You know, with Katie, her biggest problem was that she had a gummy smile.
I remember one chill day's evening chow that consisted solely of warmed-over boiled potatoes, gummy macaroni, and milk that had been kept next to something less tasty in the refrigerator.
No xanthan whatever, no guar or other gummy-like elements, only optional oil and vegan!! Just Stuff
‘I want new head phones,’ moaned the boy, who Casey could see, had messy brown hair and a gummy mouth.
Sure your boys might have lost both their pants and their game thingummyjig but the best is yet to come, something that will absolutely have you rehanging your bunting, repainting your cheek and rechanting those songs that rely more on slurred sentiment than coherent lyrics. To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash
It is, honest to God, the term for the gummy adhesive used to attach inserts to magazine pages.
Modern cosmetic dentistry focusses on solving the problems of the gummy smile by guiding gums and re-contouring them for a better appearance.
Unfortunately it's sold out but you can still order the punier but still delicious gummy bear on a stick. Magnificent and powerful
The least elegant was the vichyssoise, which had the bland, somewhat gummy consistency of whipped avocados.
Its thick, gummy oil has blackened hundreds of miles of coastline in Spain.
Byron found his mouth gummy and dry, and he barely croaked out a reply.
`You bribed Elvis to plant a thingummy in Harry Sheiling's computer! STAGE FRIGHT
Aifink there be choklit wif choklit moose fillin & choklit icing … an there be liddlol yello cuppy-caeks wif wite icing & Gummy Sweettart Bunnehs on tawp. Hyperventilation Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The scientists also experimented with droplets of tulsi, flecks of silver, and tiny particles of gummy sericin, a silk protein. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
Whether it’s here or whether it’s there, they’re doing some musical thingummyjig. RNB QuickLinks: Tap-dancing Islamists; Islamists against cucumbers; OT8 Scientologist on the radio, and more…
Gelatin, an ingredient made from cow bones, is a frequent ingredient in yogurt, ice cream, mints, gummy candies, margarine, and the coatings on some gel caps.
Whether it's here or whether it's there, they're doing some musical thingummyjig. Times, Sunday Times
Lost in Showbiz doffs its chapeau to Vogue for doing our job for us this week with its Tom Wolfe-esque feature about who the "party people" will vote for in that general election thingummybob. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Sassafras leaves contain not only sassafras flavour but also a gummy mucilage.
The pods, which are typically ridged and tapering, but may be almost round, contain many small seeds and a gummy substance which gives okra its special character.
Now how’s that thingummyjig that your uncle gave you? Presumption of Death
Conifers protect their trunks from mechanical damage and insect attack with a special gummy substance, resin.
Bake in the center of the oven for 55 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out absolutely clean under-cooking may result in a "gummy" texture. Archive 2009-05-01
Then he turned his big blue eyes on me and treated me to a big, gummy grin.
Oh, just a little ... what shall I say? ... a little touch of what-d'you-call-it and a bit of thingummy. Jill the Reckless
As we brushed through them, the gummy leaves of a cistus stuck to the clothes; and with its small white flower and yellow heart, stood for our English dog-rose. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Her wrists are covered by lots of thin gummy bracelets. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
The big heads and the little bodies, the huge eyes, tiny noses and gummy smiles - parents or not, we mammals come pre-programmed to respond to these characteristics with feelings of overwhelming protectiveness.
Conifers protect their trunks from mechanical damage and insect attack with a special gummy substance, resin.
He gurns his face effortlessly into a toothless, gummy washerwoman's grimace.
It has a standard screen at the top, keys at the bottom, with a joystick thingummy in the middle.
The trees, whose beautiful green foliage we had admired, proved to be nothing more than old gummy stumps, with their few branches, entwisted with thorns; so that their inaccessible shade spread out on every side. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
And it has been accentuated by leaving the thingummybob, "he struggles slightly for a second," The South Bank Show. The Guardian World News
I remember one chill day's evening chow that consisted solely of warmed-over boiled potatoes, gummy macaroni, and milk that had been kept next to something less tasty in the refrigerator.
I must say, I mean, it sounded like er thingummyjig all over again without the politics.
Fill the basket with such treats as candy dinosaur eggs, gummy dinosaur candy, or almond bark spikes.
Who hasn't chewed on gummy bears or gnawed on licorice candy?
Conifers protect their trunks from mechanical damage and insect attack with a special gummy substance, resin.
I cheer as Reeves insists on voting for himself, stubbornly and gleefully throwing a kink into already gummy works.
If oil, paint or animal refuse is spilled, someone will sprinkle dirt over the slick, smelly or gummy spot. Here and there: Washington DC and Jocotepec
It was formerly believed that by the action of diastase on starch the latter is first converted into a gummy substance termed dextrin, which is then subsequently transformed into a sugar -- glucose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
He'd looked down at her and she'd given him one of her gummy smiles and for a moment I thought he was going to say something to acknowledge her.
He also obtained a gummy substance which, on hydrolysis, gave rise to a reducing sugar; and as it gave mucic acid and furfurol on oxidation, he concluded that it was a compound of pentose and galactose. All About Coffee
They tasted "healthy" - kind of gummy I think because my figs were dry and old. Fig Bran Muffins
A gummy grin was her reward as Jeffery beamed at her.
'You get this gummy stuff at the bottom of the tube. Times, Sunday Times

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