Examples of “gremlin” in a Sentence

noun A mischievous imaginary creature blamed for mechanical faults or malfunctions, especially in machinery or aircraft.

• Pilots joked that a gremlin must be loose in the engine.

noun An unexplained glitch, fault, or source of trouble in a system or piece of equipment.

• There's a gremlin in this printer — it jams every single time.
• Engineers spent all night chasing a gremlin in the software.

noun A troublesome, mischievous, or annoying person.

• Her little brother is an absolute gremlin at family dinners.