How to Use gobbledygook in a Sentence

gobbledygook

noun
  • The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook.
  • Be prepared to be touched a lot, and to hear New Age gobbledygook about love and death.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Some gobbledygook about pitching to the Dodgers’ lineup for a third time.
    Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Would this all sound like gobbledygook to a first-time listener?
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2022
  • All told, the message will look scrambled or seem like gobbledygook.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Black people eschew all that gobbledygook about the charity and the joy of giving.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The return email address was some big long gobbledygook address.
    cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Or, as Chief Justice John Roberts described it: gobbledygook.
    Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • But Lisa Kudrow’s speech about the glue is complete gobbledygook—those words have nothing to do with my formula adhesive at all.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Can Justice Stephen Breyer survive a close brush with gobbledygook?
    Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • For example, the DNA in our cells is littered with huge stretches of repetitive, useless gobbledygook.
    Nathan H. Lents, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This sounds like evasive gobbledygook to many people, including me.
    Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • These must be free from the buzzword infested, gobbledygook of modern mission statements.
    Greg Autry, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • There are genes known as retrotransposons that can copy themselves and paste the duplicates in other parts of our DNA, creating large tracts of repetitive gobbledygook.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Justice Stephen Breyer said the social science measurements may be gobbledygook, but the idea of fairness is not and there are efficient ways for courts to determine what's fair.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The scene takes full advantage of Driver's booming, throaty voice and amplifies it to cartoonish extremes as he ad-libs outer space gobbledygook and makes sci-fi sound effects.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Ki-jung, the most intuitive grifter in a family full of them, shows up with a coolly professional demeanor and a mouth full of therapeutic gobbledygook.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Programmers, too, must be smart enough to wade through ChatGPT’s unshakeable belief in its own gobbledygook.
    Robert Stevens, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • And Bach's gobbledygook about Russian athletes now being safe from political pressure was just that.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In looking back on the influence Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake has established over this last half-century, that little quip of gobbledygook makes more sense now than ever before.
    Ron Hart, Billboard, 24 May 2018
  • The lack of any basic humanity in that bureaucratic gobbledygook is telling.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • If their servers do get hacked, the data is gobbledygook without the master password only each individual user knows.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Without that unique hardware identifier, the data on the drive is unreadable gobbledygook.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2022
  • For everyone else, the encrypted data looks like gobbledygook.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 3 June 2020
  • Over the past year, people have tried to whitesplain taking a knee with gobbledygook about America’s need to have a conversation about the underprivileged, inherent bias, or anything that’s not about the flag, the anthem or race.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Bits of story eddy around him, and the vast intricate gobbledygook of inevitable multiverse developments go rushing past.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 June 2021
  • For the Senate, the simple act of voting on military nominees—outside of all the rest of the Senate’s obsolete and time-consuming parliamentarian gobbledygook—would take months.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • To most baseball fans, many of the points of contention between billionaire MLB owners and millionaire players play out on a privileged battleground, spoken in a dialect of financial gobbledygook.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • One of the reasons conservatives oppose the accord is more for its world-government gobbledygook than any specific requirements on carbon emissions.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2017
  • Editorialists from Oakland to Omaha pounced on the exchange, highlighting the new word as a prime example of the Pentagon’s penchant for gobbledygook.
    Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 27 July 2018

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