How to Use glob in a Sentence

glob

noun
  • A glob of ice cream was stuck to his mustache.
  • At the end of the first song, a small red glob rained down from above.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Great bright globs of gore, falling splat-splat on the linoleum.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • One slat even has a glob of gum still stuck to it, painted over.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The signs are red threads from the tips of the grass blades and pink gelatinous globs.
    — OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The hundreds of rows of lights were evenly spaced around the glob.
    — James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
  • Each outcome depends on how big and how hot the glob of lava is.
    — Sofie Bates, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2020
  • The Steelers are like a glob of gum on the bottom of your shoe.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
  • These feathers got stuck in a glob of amber millions of years ago.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2013
  • 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
  • Bathroom sink drains can become clogged from hair, globs of toothpaste, and soapy residue.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 30 May 2026
  • 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
  • Except now there’s a tiny glob of Waterford cells in the mix.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Postseason baseball sprints like a glob of maple syrup across a plate of pancakes.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • When thinking about mold in the home, the image of fuzzy green globs clinging to old bread may come to mind.
    — Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Needless to say, there is nothing glamorous about beige globs of pretzel mush.
    — Charlotte Lieberman, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Plate-sized globs of bear scat lay everywhere, and the bruins’ beds cratered the forest floor.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The scallops had started to go south in a sticky glob of sesame whatever with chicken.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The scans and subsequent dissections showed a glob of fat sitting right next to the ear bones.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
  • Pull the strip between your thumb and forefinger to remove excess globs of paste.
    — Adriana Balsamo, New York Times, 9 May 2020
  • Thick globs of blood and tangles of tissue dropped out of me, staining my inner thighs and clothing.
    — Angela Garbes, Health.com, 29 May 2018
  • The waxy globs are congealed sap that indicated plum curculio (worms) were in the fruit.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Bieber’s face artfully dotted with globs of lotion.
    — Lucy Feldman, Time, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ma puts the red wine to one side, ignores the shortbread, and scoops a glob of cream cheese onto her fingertip.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Yet the passage of time has roughed over the fine details of their artistry, rendering these once-crisp lines into fuzzy globs.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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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