How to Use widget in a Sentence

widget

noun

• Tap on Reorder at the top to change the order of the widget list.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Rather, the top free iPhone app of the week is a widget called Locket.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 Jan. 2022
• Pin the stock widget and watch the market movement right on the screen.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2020
• Just stick it to your home screen, press the widget, and hold your phone up to the speaker.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
• The first is home screen widgets for the Google Fit mobile app.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
• Swipe up to choose from clock styles, swipe to the side to look at photos, and add widgets.
  — Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
• This will also affect the clock and widgets on the lock screen.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 21 Sep. 2023
• To do this, tap and hold on the widget or app icon, then drag it up to the top of the screen and the Remove button.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The biggest thing on the default home screen is a weather widget.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 21 Jan. 2021
• Vote for your favorites in the widget after the story through Sept. 25 and check back Sept. 27 to view the poll results.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• But the chat rooms and widgets give viewers a chance to ask questions in real time.
  — Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
• Now the Reminders widget just boots me into the app, which kind of defeats the purpose.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 13 July 2021
• All picks are straight win/loss with no spread (Enter via the widget below).
  — Jason Hoffman, Cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Put the wrong widget into the wrong dashboard and production may grind to a halt.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 1 July 2020
• For even easier access, add the clock widget to one of your phone’s home screens.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2021
• The simplest thing to do is to disable the widget area entirely.
  — Justin Pot, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
• The widget was a component in a gauge used to measure the density of iron ore.
  — Archie Hunter, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2023
• Swipe from left to the sides to move between your other screens, and long press on a widget to customize it.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 19 July 2023
• Keep up with the game, as cleveland.com provides highlights and updates in the widget below.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2021
• 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
• This may be an app issue, but there is a Pocket Cast widget for the main display.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
• To add to the home screen, tap and hold until the icons wiggle and tap the plus icon at the top left, find your Shortcuts widget, and tap Add Widget.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 3 Oct. 2021
• If a full redesign isn’t in the cards, a widget redesign would be a welcome upgrade in iOS 16.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 17 May 2022
• Then the delivery of those widgets to the buyer is tracked along with whether the order promise was met.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• That moment, in hindsight, proved to be the summit of my career in the widget business.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024
• The tide in the last two decades has been toward treating students as widgets to be engineered to produce better math and reading scores.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Compared to the old way of looking up to tap on a small circle to bring control widgets down, the new gestures feel more natural and, importantly, more fun.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024