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
• Most people don't use their iPhones for high-speed file transfers, but this will be a welcome update for people who use their phones to shoot gobs of high-resolution 4K video and want to transfer it to their desktops or laptops for editing.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024