How to Use glob in a Sentence
glob
noun- A glob of ice cream was stuck to his mustache.
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The signs are red threads from the tips of the grass blades and pink gelatinous globs.
—OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
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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
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The Steelers are like a glob of gum on the bottom of your shoe.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
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One slat even has a glob of gum still stuck to it, painted over.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
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If some epoxy globs harden on the wood’s surface, sand them.
—James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2019
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Except now there’s a tiny glob of Waterford cells in the mix.
—Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
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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
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Each outcome depends on how big and how hot the glob of lava is.
—Sofie Bates, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2020
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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
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These feathers got stuck in a glob of amber millions of years ago.
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2013
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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
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The scans and subsequent dissections showed a glob of fat sitting right next to the ear bones.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
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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
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Chef Serigne Mbaye focuses on the food of Senegal and its connection to cuisines around the glob.
—Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
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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
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Or crouched in the apartment hallway, scooping up globs of spilled cheesecake with Rachel.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The scallops had started to go south in a sticky glob of sesame whatever with chicken.
—Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
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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
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Postseason baseball sprints like a glob of maple syrup across a plate of pancakes.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2017
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In 2007, A Dutch schoolteacher named Hanny van Arkel discovered a weird green glob of gas in space.
—Marcus Woo, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2015
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The waxy globs are congealed sap that indicated plum curculio (worms) were in the fruit.
—Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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