How to Use glom in a Sentence

glom

verb

• The three, all GOP targets this fall, have glommed on to the issue with gusto.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
• There were the summers on tour, sure, seeing the world and glomming on to the rock-star lifestyle.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• Minute droplets of fog condense in the tiny holes of the mesh, which glom together into drops large enough to drip down the fibers.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• Hardy enough to persist for several days outside the pig body, the virus clung to clothes and glommed onto the soles of shoes.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• Though oenophiles glommed on to that news, those benefits are now also up for grabs.
  — Alex Van Buren, Health.com, 2 July 2018
• Those looking for something more to worry about found any number of wild claims to glom on to.
  — ELLE, 4 Apr. 2022
• Tiny bits and pieces may glom onto bigger bits and pieces, forming tar balls.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• And all of this is somehow glommed on to the lachrymose story of a grieving parent and a dying world.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• And Trump was very well received because he's glommed onto the issue as well.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
• Those two bindings allow an enzyme called RNA polymerase to glom onto the gene and make a copy of it.
  — Alla Katsnelson and Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
• The role of these antibodies is to glom onto the virus and prevent it from infecting cells.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2021
• The host molecules that viruses glom on to, which are called receptors, tend to be highly variable from one species to the next, Sawyer says.
  — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2020
• The best way to prevent things from glomming up is to be hyper-vigilant while cooking.
  — Jesse Sparks, Bon Appétit, 30 Oct. 2019
• And before that seed has time to blossom, there are people who glom on and extrapolate way too far.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2018
• The scene crescendos with a moment of Yueh standing before burning palm trees, an image Villeneuve glommed on to for his.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• But there’s a long tradition of spoofing laughably bad writing, and so why not glom onto it?
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• I had been advised to get an injection of a drug to help strengthen my bones which the cancer had glommed onto, in order to reduce the risk of fracture.
  — Scott Monserud, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
• This allowed the researchers to discern whether the fine mud particles would glom together.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2021
• They were developed to glom onto the early 2020 form of the virus, and prevent it from penetrating into a cell.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2022
• Other, also-ran fast-food chicken-sammie sellers tried to glom on.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2019
• End of carousel Regina and Reina glommed onto the idea of making a Chisholm biopic — the first, despite the representative’s many accomplishments — in the late aughts.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• Of course, the 1619 Project wanted to glom on to the Smithsonian’s credibility.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• During these events, neutrons glom onto heavy nuclei to build even heavier nuclei, some of which then blast out into the wider cosmos.
  — Marcus Woo, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
• The reinforcements glom together into a clot that staunches the flow.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021
• Pro-Trump groups have glommed onto the baseless allegations.
  — TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2020
• Too often, meme creators are left in the lurch while corporations glom onto their work and use it to sell products without giving the creator a cut.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 12 July 2019
• On teeth, on pipes, on rocks and in the ocean, microbes glom together by the billions and build sticky organic superstructures around themselves.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• Drake is often accused of being a culture vulture, and glomming onto younger artists around the world for relevance.
  — TIME, 7 May 2024
• The measure glommed all 12 of the annual spending bills into a solitary piece of legislation.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• Over time, a coalition of 14 other states and the District of Columbia have glommed onto California’s rules.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024