How to Use gob in a Sentence

gob

noun
  • The gob of mussel meat is slipped through it and snugged gently.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • So, even Texas got gob-smacked with a slap of winter this year.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • This may cause gobs of wet clay to fly sideways into the hair of other moviegoers.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Rainstorms often leave drier air in their wake, which can reduce the gobs of pollen floating in the air.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • But seeing Hendrix on Top of the Pops for the first time left me gob smacked.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 9 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, caesarean sections were required to get these gob-heads out the womb.
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • At the bottom, a machine—or, sometimes a human—snips off the gob to ready the fiber to be spun onto reels.
    — Popular Science, 22 Dec. 2020
  • In fact, swearing is so not ridiculous that gobs of research has been conducted on the subject.
    — Todd Nordstrom, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Add that to the gobs of greenhouse gas that its biomass stores and you’ve got a natural climate protector.
    — Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The electric motors add 242 horsepower—and gobs of low-end torque.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • For $20, customers could choose two types of shrimp from the menu and stuff as much down their gobs as humanly possible.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Yet, as the film makes clear, a sincere heart beats behind even Lunch’s most gob-smacking declarations.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2021
  • Remember the moon, that giant lifeless gob of rock that is definitely not a planet?
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Eyeball-popping speed and handling, unsurpassed fit and finish, gobs of amenities.
    — Brock Yates, Car and Driver, 8 June 2023
  • Catching the monsters is not simply a matter of plunking a gob of nightcrawlers on bottom and waiting for a bite, however.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 20 Dec. 2020
  • And don't forget that HBO Max removed gobs of content from its platform.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Where gobs of new podcasts and studios once launched on the regular, layoffs are now the more frequent phenomenon.
    — Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • That led to the opening of several gob-burning plants, including Grant Town.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • But their marmalade is supreme, the perfect mixture of sweet, tart, jewel-like gobs feathered with slivers of Seville-orange peel.
    — Air Mail, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Hot and tough, with luxurious hair and gobs of eyeliner, most of the female characters are straight-up teenage-gamer fantasies.
    — Time, 27 July 2023
  • And contrarians with unpopular (but correct) views could make gobs of money betting against the odds.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The soundness of the strategy is obvious during fall or spring salmon seasons, but believe me, a gob of fish eggs is effective any time of year.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The mayor will have gobs of money and institutional resources, and his opponents won’t.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Publishing controversial books can require great gobs of bravery.
    — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There are gobs of money to be made selling enterprise software, but dulling the impact of AI is also a useful feint.
    — Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Wall Street complains because higher rates add risk to otherwise painless ways to make gobs of money by borrowing cheap and lending long.
    — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Neither floppy hat nor gobs of sunscreen will lure me into the glare of a hot and humid, possibly record-breaking, 90-plus-degree day.
    — Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That included rain, of course, but also gobs of microplastics, defined as bits smaller than 5 millimeters, or about the width of a pencil eraser.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As the show goes on, the game takes on its own, increasingly less fun reality; going home is a kind of death, after all — of hope, anyway, to come away with life-changing gobs of money.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023

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