How to Use goo in a Sentence

goo

noun
  • What's this goo all over the stove?
  • The result was a messy goo left on the face of a young woman in his path.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The result looks like a soft contact lens in a bath of goo.
    Rachel Becker, The Verge, 30 May 2018
  • At the outset, the crawfish - smothered in the fiery goo - smell like a dream.
    Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The mysteries still hiding in the stinky goo of the La Brea Tar Pits.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • If the gum is still soft, freeze the item to harden the goo, then scrape off any excess.
    Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Models grooved to the music as guests stood in line for crepes and sipped tea with goo in it.
    Booth Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Reginald's head in half — his alien goo comes spilling out!
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
  • There are even legions of slime-trepreneurs who sell the goo online.
    Tamara Lush, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Or been stuck in the same lackluster-hair-goo rut for too long?
    Andrew Goble, GQ, 19 May 2018
  • In the fifth episode, Ambrose used Sabrina's blood to draw the black goo out of Nick.
    Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • There’s icky goo, creepy rats, monsters and other shocks and scares.
    oregonlive.com, 9 July 2019
  • And the slimy goo wasn’t just coming in from underneath the doors of their Longwood home.
    Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The fuel goo spreads around a mold that has been lowered inside.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2018
  • It was coated in a viscous white goo, and a black shoelace had been knotted around its neck.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But when Eddie is leaving the bar, the camera shows a bit of black goo has been left behind.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • With a push of a button, the machine takes over, heating the soon-to-be food goo to a toasty 158 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Available in six zesty shades, this goo can be sculpted, stretched, and snapped to your desire.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2023
  • This dissolves that goo, loosening the husks, which will shrug right off.
    James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
  • The city is covered in an orange goo and smoke suffocates all signs of life.
    Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Footage from the station shows the roadway covered in yellow goo.
    Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Thick black goo covered miles of coastline and reached to the Channel Islands.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
  • But no one had quite figured out how the jellies’ goo worked until now.
    Cheryl Ames, National Geographic, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The milky goo that squirted out stank like the alley next to our old shack and tasted like vinegar-laced glue.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • Oil and gas prices last peaked around 2014 and sunk slowly until the black goo hit negative prices in the spring of last year.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • But then one dude starts oozing black goo from his mouth and going on a rampage.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Beings of sentient goo that can express all kinds of gender all over the place.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
  • One of his twin 2-year-old daughter's eyes had become inflamed and leaked goo.
    Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 16 May 2017
  • The teaser ended with a shot of Lucy rising up out of a vat of hot, pink primordial goo.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
  • While the goos are great for race day, I am obsessed with Honey Stinger’s caffeine gummies and stroopwafels.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 July 2024

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