How to Use gumball in a Sentence

gumball

noun
  • Tired of spiked gumballs in your yard?
    — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 4 Apr. 2026
  • These gumballs aren’t just painful to step on, though.
    — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
  • Decades ago, a penny could purchase a gumball.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Gi-hun twists the knob of a giant gumball machine that dispenses red and blue balls.
    — Esther Kang, People.com, 5 May 2025
  • The short video showed daughter Dream dancing in front of a gumball machine with her name on it.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The season promises deadly new games, one of which involves a giant gumball machine.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The versions might include something chunky, a ribbon of caramel, a layer of ganache on top, even a gumball at the bottom.
    — Bon Appétit, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The pop-up will include fun and immersive elements such as a gumball machine doling out prizes.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • To make these deceptively easy gumball machine eggs, cut off the bottom of a mini red plastic cup and glue the piece onto the top of an egg.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Lushly painted cupcakes and gumball machines brought back memories of his idyllic past.
    — Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The machine jams a little, but eventually a gumball swirls down the spiral pathway to a little metal slot by the floor.
    — Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
  • The SpongeBob popsicle no longer has gumball eyes Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • Select your Time Capsule of choice — a bottle, jean pocket, gumball machine, lunch box or teddy bear.
    — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Suddenly, the gumballs turned into softballs and the glass on her Mustang’s windshield cracked, cutting her hands.
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The season 3 trailer also teases a few new games, with players receiving either a red or blue ball from a gumball machine.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 5 May 2025
  • Each fixture looks like a big gray Lego block, with a round socket holding a bulb the size of an ostrich egg encased in a thick glass globe, like a gumball machine.
    — Diego Lasarte, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The Bengals drafted the Hope Diamond and put him in a gumball machine for safe keeping.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Throughout the case, an attorney for the counties, Mark Lanier, used the analogy of a gumball machine.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The blue gumball machine still sits at the front entrance, across from the community bulletin board boasting dozens of business cards and fliers for local services.
    — Shannon Greene, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
  • As for why snowy owls tend to gather crowds more than, say, a sparrow, some credit their presence — gumball eyes and curious heads — or their personalities.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This kit allows kids to make their own customizable pinball machine that uses edible gumballs as pinballs!
    — Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Pogo sticks and gumballs and flares and fireworks and scooters and double-decker buses and cemeteries and country roads become putty in the director’s hands.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Your kid gets to design and reconfigure their very own arcade-style pinball machine—using actual edible gumballs as the pinball!
    — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Many others — painters of Pontiacs, drugstore facades or gumball machines — were dismissed as frivolous.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • An emotional, high-concept, sci-fi action-comedy should hold together as well as a 150-foot-tall gumball machine in an earthquake.
    — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Make your own greeting card at On Paper or drop 50 cents in a gumball machine for a short story from Prologue Bookshop.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 13 May 2026
  • It’s finished in a gleaming coat of Ferrari’s trademark Rosso Corsa and has a white racing gumball adorned with the number 81.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The trailer shows Gi-hun brought back amongst the competitors inside a coffin-like box and teases the upcoming games, which appear to include a giant gumball machine.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2025
  • For instance, his famous gumball machines operate as circles within a larger, transparent circle.
    — Erika Mailman, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Back to battle once again for their lives and a giant cash prize, the wordless preview sees contestants facing a series of high-stakes situations, involving guns, fists and an ominous giant gumball machine.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 May 2025

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