How to Use blob in a Sentence

blob

1 of 2 noun
  • That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for.
  • Yeah; a lot of it was language blobs.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Build a water blob or a slip 'n slide.
    — Parents, 11 June 2026
  • No, the blobs aren’t coming back.
    — ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026
  • There's no wrong way to make blobs and squiggles.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In the first proof, the kids are mere black blobs, the room around them spare.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Now add a blob of water, wetting some of the sand.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the blobs of light were pairs of Jupiter-mass objects.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The blob was earth-toned and splashed bestselling covers for years.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • About an hour into the dive, a white-ish blob emerged in the distance.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • What happens if the 'cold blob' persists?
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Over the next day and a half, this blob becomes a new polyp, which can then form more medusae.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Was Obama ever a man of the left or of the blob?
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Sticky black blobs of oil are washing up on Texas’ shorelines again.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • So here’s to a cute little pink blob that has filled our hearts with joy for 30 years.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Why is there a mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean?
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
  • Then an echo-sounder detected a blob of krill that spread for miles below the ship.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Set the blobs up in the yard and allow kids or teens to hop from one blob to another.
    — Parents, 11 June 2026
  • The cause of these kicks is the ejection of blobs of plasma from the red giant stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • My chest might have looked like a miniature quilt of puffy blobs for a day or two afterward.
    — Alice Hart-Davis, ELLE, 20 Apr. 2023
  • To tie the space together, the sink and floor tile match the painting's black blobs.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 May 2026
  • The watchers watch her fall slowly to the floor, becoming a blob of stuff.
    — Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But as a little blob of mucilage circled my feet, my stomach churned and my body froze.
    — Jenna Scatena, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Everyone thinks fat stores are just these passive blobs of tissue that hang off your body.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
  • About 20 yards away, right near one of her crewmates’ tents, was a giant, fuzzy brown blob.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • How does the featureless blob that is the early embryo know what to make and where to make it?
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Milky, creamy blobs of mozzarella are melted over the top with plenty of torn basil.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • These Matisse-esque dark green blobs are painted to pop against this milky nude base.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Modern life seemed erased by a white tide — road signs obscured, and cars turned into amorphous blobs.
    — Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
  • Are jellyfish-like blobs harmful to humans or pets?
    — Stephanie Zappelli, Sacbee.com, 23 Apr. 2026

blob

2 of 2 verb
  • Saturn will be the smaller, fainter blob at Jupiter's upper right.
    — Arkansas Online, 2020-12-22
  • Although seaweed is normal, seaweed blobs this thick are not.
    — Jacob Sweet, miamiherald, 2018-07-03
  • The felt tip glides smoothly and doesn't skip or drag—or the worst, bleed, leaving you with a big black ink blob on your eyes.
    — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 2020-10-13
  • The population blob that’s forming around us has tremendous potential to create wealth.
    — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 2021-03-26
  • Dark matter can and does turn into black holes, but the scientists posit that Sagittarius A* is instead a blob-like mass that will require a lot more material in order to turn into a black hole.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2021-06-16
  • In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2021-08-11

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