How to Use glob in a Sentence

glob

noun

• A glob of ice cream was stuck to his mustache.
• The signs are red threads from the tips of the grass blades and pink gelatinous globs.
  — OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Take a good-sized glob of J-B out of the jar and work it into the patch.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2020
• The Steelers are like a glob of gum on the bottom of your shoe.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
• One slat even has a glob of gum still stuck to it, painted over.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
• If some epoxy globs harden on the wood’s surface, sand them.
  — James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2019
• Except now there’s a tiny glob of Waterford cells in the mix.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• That glob gets passed to elf No. 2 who, with a rolling pin, flattens it into a kind of sheet.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2021
• Each outcome depends on how big and how hot the glob of lava is.
  — Sofie Bates, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2020
• No whole peanuts or big globs of peanut butter on a spoon or in a lump, or chunky peanut butter.
  — Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2017
• These feathers got stuck in a glob of amber millions of years ago.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2013
• Not at him, perhaps, but at the sight of a glob of saliva being propelled from his mouth?
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• The scans and subsequent dissections showed a glob of fat sitting right next to the ear bones.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
• Soon Robbie May emerged from the bathroom and into the living room, dressed and ready to go but for a blue glob on his face.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• Chef Serigne Mbaye focuses on the food of Senegal and its connection to cuisines around the glob.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• The globs — along with some rocks and sand — were bagged for disposal and carried away by power boat.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Or crouched in the apartment hallway, scooping up globs of spilled cheesecake with Rachel.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• The dish to order: The aubergine melt, on rye with globs of gruyère cheese, yellow tomato jam and Calabrian chili.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2024
• The center is a big glob of gloop—skip that bite, stay along the perimeter for a better balance of flaky crust to pumpkin gloop.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2022
• Pratt’s cows have been built from the same glob of Prairie Farms butter, stored in an ice cream factory freezer, for the last 17 years.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• The scallops had started to go south in a sticky glob of sesame whatever with chicken.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• Or, 'Oumuamua could have been a glob of porous ices that was lightweight enough for sunlight alone to give it a nudge.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
• Postseason baseball sprints like a glob of maple syrup across a plate of pancakes.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• In 2007, A Dutch schoolteacher named Hanny van Arkel discovered a weird green glob of gas in space.
  — Marcus Woo, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2015
• The waxy globs are congealed sap that indicated plum curculio (worms) were in the fruit.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• The shavings are carefully layered (so as to not become globs of meat) on a thick French roll.
  — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
• Ninety-nine million years ago in what's now Myanmar, a glob of tree resin oozed onto a beach.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
• There is a show here — and, frankly, much could be transformed simply by adding more fresh music and cutting globs of text.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• Once the gum is frozen solid, use a spoon to lift up the glob, then use scissors or sharp knife to cut the carpet strands as close as possible to the gum.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
• All of those emotions well up — there’s snot coming from her nose, her eyes are glistening, there’s globs of tears running down her face.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024