How to Use gob in a Sentence

gob

noun
  • But seeing Hendrix on Top of the Pops for the first time left me gob smacked.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 9 June 2023
  • So, even Texas got gob-smacked with a slap of winter this year.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The gob fire in Alabama was the cause of traffic accidents.
    Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
  • 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
  • And don't forget that HBO Max removed gobs of content from its platform.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • In fact, swearing is so not ridiculous that gobs of research has been conducted on the subject.
    Todd Nordstrom, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The particles careened and careened, the brainless gobs.
    Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • That led to the opening of several gob-burning plants, including Grant Town.
    New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The spire burned and crashed down, punching giant, jagged holes into the vaults and sending gobs of molten metal and charred beams plummeting below.
    Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 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
  • The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The world’s most famous—or at least most memified—photo of a deep-sea creature captures the blobfish Mr. Blobby with a white gob of spit dribbling from his pout.
    Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Smith has never lost his aura of bemused angst, with his dripping gobs of eyeliner, his smeared red lipstick, his sticky black-bat swamp of hair.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
  • Where gobs of new podcasts and studios once launched on the regular, layoffs are now the more frequent phenomenon.
    Vulture, 19 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here’s what’s at stake: The state has gobs of extra money and during last fall’s campaign, Gov. Greg Abbott promised a historic amount of property tax relief.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
  • Prep For Success Whether your lure gets hung up in a piece of wood, wedged between rocks, or entangled in a gob of line some careless angler tossed in the lake, our first instinct is to pull back hard on the rod to free the bait.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Remember the moon, that giant lifeless gob of rock that is definitely not a planet?
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The Bay Area’s Craigslist currently has gobs of the chairs for sale, photographed in warehouses, lined up in corners of conference rooms and wrapped in plastic outside a storage unit.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 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
  • And corporate shake-ups at HBO Max have resulted in gobs of stuff being removed from that platform entirely.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Eyeball-popping speed and handling, unsurpassed fit and finish, gobs of amenities.
    Brock Yates, Car and Driver, 8 June 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
  • And contrarians with unpopular (but correct) views could make gobs of money betting against the odds.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023

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