How to Use gobbledygook in a Sentence

gobbledygook

noun
  • The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook.
  • But at least some of it was gobbledygook.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
  • Would this all sound like gobbledygook to a first-time listener?
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2022
  • All told, the message will look scrambled or seem like gobbledygook.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Some gobbledygook about pitching to the Dodgers’ lineup for a third time.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Be prepared to be touched a lot, and to hear New Age gobbledygook about love and death.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • The return email address was some big long gobbledygook address.
    — cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • That’s corporate gobbledygook that tries to appease all sides and achieves nothing.
    — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Black people eschew all that gobbledygook about the charity and the joy of giving.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Dec. 2017
  • This sounds like evasive gobbledygook to many people, including me.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Meaningless gobbledygook to an outsider, yet powerful to those who know how to wield those sounds properly.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • These must be free from the buzzword infested, gobbledygook of modern mission statements.
    — Greg Autry, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • Can Justice Stephen Breyer survive a close brush with gobbledygook?
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The lack of any basic humanity in that bureaucratic gobbledygook is telling.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But Lisa Kudrow’s speech about the glue is complete gobbledygook—those words have nothing to do with my formula adhesive at all.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
  • If their servers do get hacked, the data is gobbledygook without the master password only each individual user knows.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Caple and his team understand that, beneath the mythical gobbledygook, these movies are about sensations and nostalgia.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • Without that unique hardware identifier, the data on the drive is unreadable gobbledygook.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2022
  • And Bach's gobbledygook about Russian athletes now being safe from political pressure was just that.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Inflated and abstract writing such as that 1942 blackout order is called gobbledygook.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Ki-jung, the most intuitive grifter in a family full of them, shows up with a coolly professional demeanor and a mouth full of therapeutic gobbledygook.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Bits of story eddy around him, and the vast intricate gobbledygook of inevitable multiverse developments go rushing past.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 June 2021
  • This time, however, Spielberg seems to be not so much leading as following the decades of lore and mythology — and gobbledygook — that his movie of 49 years ago helped inspire.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • One of the reasons conservatives oppose the accord is more for its world-government gobbledygook than any specific requirements on carbon emissions.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2017
  • Programmers, too, must be smart enough to wade through ChatGPT’s unshakeable belief in its own gobbledygook.
    — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Justice Stephen Breyer said the social science measurements may be gobbledygook, but the idea of fairness is not and there are efficient ways for courts to determine what's fair.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Their explanations are always a jumbled turd of gobbledygook about forgiveness, togetherness and everything except the evil of white supremacy.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This dumbed-down Goebbels gobbledygook revived talking points that Habermas had tried to quash during the Historikerstreit.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • There are genes known as retrotransposons that can copy themselves and paste the duplicates in other parts of our DNA, creating large tracts of repetitive gobbledygook.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Services that apply solid, end-to-end encryption have nothing but useless gobbledygook (and subscriber information and metadata, sure) to turn over to authorities.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2019

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