How to Use lobe in a Sentence

lobe

noun
  • The glossy leaves have a unique shape with pointy lobes.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The glossy leaves have a unique shape with pointy lobes.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Who couldn’t use a little frontal-lobe jumpstart?
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2026
  • To speak those lyrics in the form of a tune taps into the right parietal lobe.
    — Jessica Ravitz, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • In its natural form its leaves are bright green, star-shaped with bold lobes.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Instead of pits and ridges, they’re marked with folds, lobes and wrinkles.
    — Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Thompson went on to do a vertical stack of two studs on my right lobe.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 12 July 2022
  • With their deep lobes and complex patterns, its huge leaves may be as much as five feet across.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • When worn on the same lobe, the unexpected curves stick out even more.
    — Indya Brown, The Cut, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The tree lives on, two lobes of wood slowly closing around its scar window.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Sideburns should not be more than one-half inch below the bottom of the ear lobe.
    — Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Slice straight down, from top to bottom, to remove one big pineapple lobe.
    — Meredith Stettner, Bon Appétit, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Olarra also donned a brace on his left leg and a cross earring in his right lobe.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • When in doubt, opt for something simple, like a thin silver hoop that hugs the lobe.
    — Todd Plummer, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • George’s locs extend past his shirt collar, but are kept braided up above his lobes.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Taylor was hit in the esophagus and right upper lobe of his lung.
    — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 26 Jan. 2018
  • There are five lobes in the lungs, three on the right and two on the left, Flores explained.
    — Ashley Welch, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The Waukesha native's cancer was in all four lobes of her lungs.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
  • These dazzling dangly earrings have a clip at the back that snaps on your ear lobes.
    — Sophie Dweck, townandcountrymag.com, 26 May 2023
  • The gauges in his ears have been confiscated and the lobes droop along with his spirits.
    — David Debolt, The Mercury News, 17 June 2017
  • The inner lobes are bright and short, while the outer lobes are faint and elongated.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 June 2025
  • Fireweed rock glacier consists of three lobes of rock merging to become one long tongue.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • The hoops on the lobe were much larger, nearly skimming her shoulders.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Aug. 2022
  • It was located in the lower lobe of her left lung, a spot that’s much harder to reach.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The western side of that glacial lobe had been showing signs of calving within the past few days.
    — Author: Madeline McGee, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Because of the surrounding gas, one jet lobe is compressed and squashed.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • While bridging, inhale through your nose, filling the lowest lobes of your lungs.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • After decades of being upstaged by the lobes, the rest of the ear is ready for its glow-up moment.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The cold snap is linked to a lobe of the polar vortex in the lower atmosphere.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Tom Foxx has a malignant neoplasm of the lower lobe in his lung.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017

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