How to Use cobble in a Sentence

cobble

1 of 2 verb
  • Harp would have to cobble things together until then.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Harp would have to cobble things together until then.
    — Lauren Hilgers, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Rovinj’s cobbled lanes, baroque churches, and seafood bistros are just a 10-minute walk away.
    — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The club has shown the ability to cobble together a strong bullpen.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Those who can cobble together a network—by virtue of luck or wealth or people skills—come out ahead.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Centuries-old cedars of Lebanon lend shade to winding paths cobbled with smooth pebbles.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Few other coaches could have cobbled together such a team out of nine new players.
    — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Mahomes was trying to cobble together a comeback win or at least a chance to tie the game down three points.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The parties have nearly three months to cobble together a new coalition.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Districts have cobbled together funds to make some improvements over the years.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Apr. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time a helpful human has tried to cobble together a turtle wheelchair.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The Bears coaching staff made some smart draft picks, and the front office cobbled together some trades that paid off.
    — Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There were bits and pieces of greatness, enough cobbled together for the Spurs to start winning early.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • The wheels are all-terrain-friendly, meaning little drivers can drive on asphalt, grass, or cobbled roads.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
  • UConn football will play a lot of road games to pay the bills and hope to cobble together enough wins against bad teams to make a minor bowl game.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Most people are left to cobble together care with out-of-pocket spending and fragile safety nets.
    — Thomas McInerney, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Chicago had to fend off a clawing Cincinnati squad that cobbled together a comeback late in the game.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Biden has been unable to cobble together the bipartisan support needed to get a bill to his desk.
    — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The owner must also be patient enough to wait for the conservancy to cobble together grants to buy the land.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The beauty of most D2C customer lists is that they weren’t scraped or cobbled together.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • From homemade ones cobbled together from tree branches and rubber bands to wrist rockets and more, no tin can or soda bottle was safe.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
  • If a candidate could cobble together those dissident groups, there just might be a path to victory.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The game was another example of a varied mix of first-team players finding a way to cobble together a win by any means.
    — The Enquirer, 5 June 2023
  • Colorado cobbled together its run in the fourth to cut Miami’s lead to 2-1.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Kudos to the Vox Media team and Boorstin, who were able to cobble it together quickly.
    — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Airlines either have to build their own systems, or cobble them together from multiple vendors.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 26 Dec. 2025
  • But whether students can access classes like these largely depends on if their school district can cobble together the funding.
    — Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In order to make an independent movie, the producer must cobble together financiers to pay up-front costs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • And so there’s paper trails that can be cobbled together to make that case, but there are lots of people also doing that and taking advantage of that.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The family served him one simple meal a day consisting of rice and red kidney beans, and sometimes chicken grilled on a tiny stove cobbled out of an old propane tank.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025

cobble

2 of 2 noun
  • The shiny cobbles of the side street, the white brick of the wall opposite.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The last section of cobbles is only three miles from the finish.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 6 July 2018
  • The site’s capuchins use quartzite cobbles as hammerstones, and tree limbs and loose stones as anvils.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • The area is flat, sandy and more delicate, interspersed with smaller plants and cobbles.
    — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Historic features likes cobbles and tramlines have been retained.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 7 July 2025
  • Or, take in the sounds of cannon fire at Fort Mackinac and feel the worn cobbles beneath your feet.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This area has recently been shored up with cobble designed to absorb the impact of the waves hitting the bank.
    — Abby Spegman, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The cobbles that served as hammerstones and anvils, then, could not have entered the layer by natural means.
    — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Gilets with sweat on their brows diligently dug up cobbles or chipped fresh stone projectiles from the facades of buildings.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Along the glistening cobbles of the bank, a black ouzel bobbed and flew rock to rock, staying just ahead of me, keeping me company.
    — Peter Heller, Outdoor Life, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Made of brass, these cobble stone plates are typically etched with the names, birthdates, and fates of Nazi victims.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The shoreline has gone from rough cobbles that looked like a lunar landscape to a fine sand that rivals any beach in the Northwest.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2016
  • The unique roughness of the PR cobbles is his biggest obstacle.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Most people are left to cobble together care with out-of-pocket spending and fragile safety nets.
    — Thomas McInerney, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Scattered around the site were flakes that seem to have been chipped off the cobbles, as though someone had struck the rocks against another solid object.
    — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Georgetown is a good place to glimpse such palimpsests, which include the cobbles and streetcar tracks on O and P streets.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The hubbub of the townsfolk chatting near Jimena’s house died down and my shoes on the cobbles were the only sound in the square.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2025
  • Our final evening of camping was on cobbles underneath the Mile 10 sign of the pipeline.
    — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • My footsteps on the cobbles seemed embarrassingly loud.
    — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Tiny Zahara is a delight for those who want to hear only the sounds of the wind, birds, and elderly footsteps on ancient cobbles.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Representing a mix of basaltic and non-basaltic cobbles, the collection seemed strange, thanks, in part, to its composition.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Heck, the first-ever settlements probably used some cobbles to cobble together a road.
    — Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The watershed screw up the water quality, screw up all the sediment and cobble that, make the river mouth this amazing series of waves.
    — Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The jagged edges of the cobbles inject the likelihood of regular punctures and mechanical failures.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Liam Fitzpatrick owns a shoe repair shop in south Chicago, thinks of himself as a leprechaun, plays the flute, cobbles shoes, and even sports a green jacket and red beard.
    — The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But early investigators found the hilly ridges to be composed of clay, silt, sand, pebbles, cobbles and boulders, all jumbled up together.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • These primitive implements are known as cobble-and-flake tools in which river stones, or cobbles, are flaked into usable tools, including pick-like objects.
    — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The skill is riding a 1938 Ariel Red Hunter at speed on a road of treacherous cobbles that could shift and spill you at any time.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Hauling out some 7,000 cubic yards of debris — work that is still ongoing — is allowing a soft, sandy beach to grow where there was bare cobble and rock.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2018
  • These spreads of cobbles, the archaeologists say, may be the remains of stone-and-soil ramps the Rapanui once used to roll giant stone hats to the tops of their iconic statues.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018

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