How to Use gobbledygook in a Sentence

gobbledygook

noun

• The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook.
• Be prepared to be touched a lot, and to hear New Age gobbledygook about love and death.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• Some gobbledygook about pitching to the Dodgers’ lineup for a third time.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• Would this all sound like gobbledygook to a first-time listener?
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2022
• All told, the message will look scrambled or seem like gobbledygook.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Black people eschew all that gobbledygook about the charity and the joy of giving.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Dec. 2017
• The return email address was some big long gobbledygook address.
  — cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Or, as Chief Justice John Roberts described it: gobbledygook.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
• But Lisa Kudrow’s speech about the glue is complete gobbledygook—those words have nothing to do with my formula adhesive at all.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
• Can Justice Stephen Breyer survive a close brush with gobbledygook?
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• For example, the DNA in our cells is littered with huge stretches of repetitive, useless gobbledygook.
  — Nathan H. Lents, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• This sounds like evasive gobbledygook to many people, including me.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• These must be free from the buzzword infested, gobbledygook of modern mission statements.
  — Greg Autry, Forbes, 3 July 2022
• There are genes known as retrotransposons that can copy themselves and paste the duplicates in other parts of our DNA, creating large tracts of repetitive gobbledygook.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Justice Stephen Breyer said the social science measurements may be gobbledygook, but the idea of fairness is not and there are efficient ways for courts to determine what's fair.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
• The scene takes full advantage of Driver's booming, throaty voice and amplifies it to cartoonish extremes as he ad-libs outer space gobbledygook and makes sci-fi sound effects.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Ki-jung, the most intuitive grifter in a family full of them, shows up with a coolly professional demeanor and a mouth full of therapeutic gobbledygook.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Programmers, too, must be smart enough to wade through ChatGPT’s unshakeable belief in its own gobbledygook.
  — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• And Bach's gobbledygook about Russian athletes now being safe from political pressure was just that.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• In looking back on the influence Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake has established over this last half-century, that little quip of gobbledygook makes more sense now than ever before.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 24 May 2018
• The lack of any basic humanity in that bureaucratic gobbledygook is telling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• If their servers do get hacked, the data is gobbledygook without the master password only each individual user knows.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
• Without that unique hardware identifier, the data on the drive is unreadable gobbledygook.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2022
• For everyone else, the encrypted data looks like gobbledygook.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 3 June 2020
• Over the past year, people have tried to whitesplain taking a knee with gobbledygook about America’s need to have a conversation about the underprivileged, inherent bias, or anything that’s not about the flag, the anthem or race.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
• Bits of story eddy around him, and the vast intricate gobbledygook of inevitable multiverse developments go rushing past.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• For the Senate, the simple act of voting on military nominees—outside of all the rest of the Senate’s obsolete and time-consuming parliamentarian gobbledygook—would take months.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• To most baseball fans, many of the points of contention between billionaire MLB owners and millionaire players play out on a privileged battleground, spoken in a dialect of financial gobbledygook.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• One of the reasons conservatives oppose the accord is more for its world-government gobbledygook than any specific requirements on carbon emissions.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2017
• Editorialists from Oakland to Omaha pounced on the exchange, highlighting the new word as a prime example of the Pentagon’s penchant for gobbledygook.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 27 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024