How to Use glom in a Sentence

glom

verb
  • Leave it to a Housewife to find an adoring gay to glom on to.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Tiny bits and pieces may glom onto bigger bits and pieces, forming tar balls.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Other, also-ran fast-food chicken-sammie sellers tried to glom on.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But there’s a long tradition of spoofing laughably bad writing, and so why not glom onto it?
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Perhaps the detail people have glommed onto the most was an anecdote from Daniel.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 30 July 2024
  • The role of these antibodies is to glom onto the virus and prevent it from infecting cells.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2021
  • This allowed the researchers to discern whether the fine mud particles would glom together.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Then Lil Gotit and Lil Keed glommed onto the soulfulness.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Alexa is a platform now, and the Show is an attempt to build out that platform rather than glom another one onto it.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Soon after the memes started making the rounds on Sunday, other politicians glommed on.
    — Neenma Ebeledike, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
  • Schumaker seemed to put a lot of weight into Gore glomming onto the duo in Surprise.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • While Billy pursues getting rich – not always in the most legal ways – a ridiculously cute alien thingie gloms on to him.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Clearly, then, for actual rain to fall, a million teeny droplets have to glom together into a larger unit.
    — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 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 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
  • But like starfish glomming onto rocks, the metaphor took hold in the scientific and public imagination.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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