How to Use goblin in a Sentence

goblin

noun
  • In front of each path is a goblin, one a truth teller and the other a liar.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Remember to watch out for the pint-size ghosts and goblins that evening.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • So please, by all means, someone put this little hob goblin in jail.
    — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 14 July 2017
  • One of the tieflings is shot through with goblin arrows trying to open the gate.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In a scene from Troll 2, goblins gather and get ready to feast.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2010
  • This image shows the head of a goblin shark with its jaws extended.
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Riders queue through the lobby and past all the bank tellers, goblins of course.
    — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
  • For two nights only, the moonlit paths of the park will be riddled with ghosts and goblins.
    — Geoff Bruce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Those goblins have already made it into the new song and its visuals.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
  • There's something for every ghoul and goblin in this batch of potent potions and swirling elixirs.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The bottom line is that going goblin mode shouldn’t be overwhelming—that’s not the point at all.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2023
  • From blood and gore to ghost, goblins, and creepy masks, the season can be disconcerting.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Halloween is full of goblins, ghouls, jack-o’-lanterns, skeletons, and candy.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The plot follows a young girl who ends up wishing away her baby brother into the goblin labyrinth.
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 14 Jan. 2026
  • These adults-only parties exclude the little ghouls and goblins.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 25 Oct. 2019
  • There’s also a lot of, to use a more modern phrase, goblin energy to these cartoons.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Her books are set in Ireland and feature all manner of goblins, dark woods and magic.
    — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2017
  • The hunger-desire gleaming in their eyes brought to mind that poem about goblin men selling goblin fruit.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to the orange pumpkin, white ghost and green goblin, there will be a red zombie and a black cat.
    — Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The mask covering his face is painted with jagged Halloween goblin teeth.
    — Barbara Marshall, ajc, 9 May 2017
  • When Red jumps off his roof and wages battle with an ax-wielding goblin next to a burning car in the driveway.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2018
  • This one just happens to involve wizards, goblins, and one savage, half-blind dragon.
    — Séamas O'Reilly, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The star of the 75th Emmy Awards red carpet was a green goblin in a mossy evening gown.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • This simple act of kindness helps spread the Halloween spirit to all the little goblins and ghosts.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Leave the brain teasers to the little goblins who visit your door for trick-or-treating and learn how to tell when pumpkins are ready to harvest.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2023
  • How will the weather affect the goblins, ghosts and ghouls in your neighborhood on Halloween evening?
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That’s 555 kernels of candy corn, enough to feed a neighborhood of goblins.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • There’s a chill in the air, leaves litter the ground, and houses up and down on your street are decked out with ghouls, goblins and all manner of grim tidings.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023

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