How To Use Gubbins In A Sentence
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Evergreens, including carex and festuca, just need a little comb-through to clear away dead material and gathered gubbins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pulling off the cheap plastic lens and gubbins from the front of the camera was easy, as was opening up the back and gutting the thing of all the springs and pulleys and bits of black plastic that I wouldn't be needing.
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The ease of it all was due partly to people like Tom Gubbins, who worked as a Chinese-casting agent and prop furnisher for numerous films in the thirties, including The Good Earth.
American Chinatown
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It gets translated into java, with added database connectivity and gubbins like that, then it's executed.
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Evergreens, including carex and festuca, just need a little comb-through to clear away dead material and gathered gubbins.
Times, Sunday Times
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For me the benefits of being more creative, better at lateral thought and problem-solving, and all that gubbins more than make more than make up for it.
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Elect to unscrew the VCR cover to have a look at the gubbins inside.
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So it's slow and ugly and now things really go downhill because thanks to the prop shaft and all the other rear-wheel-drive gubbins, there is no space in the back.
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You know, there's a letterbox in the dash but the gubbins are under the passenger seat.
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For anyone else who's interested (this means you, Gordon), the new ADSL modem and wireless networking gubbins are now all in place.
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You can get all the gubbins in the baking aisle.
The Sun
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Fear not if the road is slippery or especially bumpy, as the friendly traction control light will illuminate and the electronic gubbins will kill wheelspin and steady your trajectory in a jerk-free manner.
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It either makes the vehicle heavier through the extra gubbins you have to put on it, or measures to improve the burn quality of the engine end up with you burning more oil to run that engine.
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I don't drink milk, because I don't like farming methods, and I don't think most farmed milk is particularly good for you - all the preservative gubbins that goes in.
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Having renewed the contents insurance at 9pm on Friday, I received the complete pack, policy, numbers, and all that gubbins, in the post this morning.
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I thought I had, but the gubbins for the wireless networking router appears to be AWOL.
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It requires committee rooms, meeting places, back office space, support teams, information technology and all the rest of the gubbins.
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That's it," said Mrs. Gubbins; "they call it number one, sometimes; I suppose amativeness is Latin for number one.
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
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Well, to be honest, it didn't so much blow up as trip the main fuse when 2 large cups of hot chocolate, which I'd put in to heat, tipped over and trickled into the gubbins in the bottom of it.
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Take absolute pleasure in bombarding her with all sorts of gubbins you’ve downloaded of t’interweb.
Yeah Yeah Yeah « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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He's now exchanged the wrong inner cistern gubbins he got yesterday for the correct ones.
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This is perhaps why I get ticked off when I hear people banging on about spirits, energy and other astral gubbins and taking it all on board without criticising it at all, with what seems to me to be little experience.
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Gubbins has deponed to you that he bought those sheep at the fair of Kelso, from a person of the name of Shiells, and that he paid the money for them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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The gubbins up front - the lens, the buttons etc. don't vary much from camera to camera, but what the camera records onto alters what film you see at the end of the day.
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So you'll be able to IM from your BlackBerry, if your company has the right gubbins.
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I'm not suggesting, of course, that women don't care about suspension and torque and all that gubbins, nor that men don't care about colours and accessories.
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Yes, it's probably stupid emotional gubbins, but we're allowed a bit of that every now and then, aren't we?
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Having then been working on CSS gubbins all day, my brain is not strictly with it.
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There are no buttons to push if you get stuck in mud, no transfer box or locking differentials, no gubbins to keep you moving when nature would rather you didn't.
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Throttle response seems completely unaffected by the forced induction gubbins, no doubt a result of keeping the intake tract short and with as little internal air volume as feasible.
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My lack of ability to achieve any real success in almost all areas of DIY provides her with hours of amusing tales for her friends and she is well aware that even getting the gubbins out of the box could prove disastrous.
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It has to be said that the box that holds all the important computer gubbins in this system lies somewhere just south of Hideous, mixing last century's beige with transparent plastic and metal bolts.
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Fair enough, it's where they met, and all that gubbins - but somehow it just makes me think ‘Yick!’
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It makes for a fluid, satisfying driving experience from the outset and with so much electronic gubbins involved it's actually a pretty neat trick.
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There was the Worm, apotheosis of the suburban man for whom Gubbins wrote.
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If I'm thinking of having the gubbins cleared out of my carotid artery, what can you tell me about what I can expect, at least in the first month after the operation?
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Plugging the unit into your TV and computer is reasonably straightforward, presuming you have all the other gubbins already in place, such as a computer with an Ethernet network port.
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There are endless racks of technical gubbins - what they do is anyone's guess.
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Now, not wanting to harm the little thing, I didn't feel inclined to poison or trap it, so I took up a suggestion that the gubbins from a musical card should be placed in the run.
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The best bet (from Martyn, who knows a fair bit about such things) is that the guy's engine was seriously badly tuned and some petrol was getting into gubbins that it shouldn't.
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In fact, it's also a complete nightmare - stripping out all the tables, maintaining the basics of the ‘design’, and all that gubbins.
