How to Use glob in a Sentence

glob

noun
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  • A glob of ice cream was stuck to his mustache.
  • The signs are red threads from the tips of the grass blades and pink gelatinous globs.
    — OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Take a good-sized glob of J-B out of the jar and work it into the patch.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The Steelers are like a glob of gum on the bottom of your shoe.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
  • One slat even has a glob of gum still stuck to it, painted over.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
  • If some epoxy globs harden on the wood’s surface, sand them.
    — James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Except now there’s a tiny glob of Waterford cells in the mix.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
  • That glob gets passed to elf No. 2 who, with a rolling pin, flattens it into a kind of sheet.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Each outcome depends on how big and how hot the glob of lava is.
    — Sofie Bates, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2020
  • No whole peanuts or big globs of peanut butter on a spoon or in a lump, or chunky peanut butter.
    — Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2017
  • These feathers got stuck in a glob of amber millions of years ago.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2013
  • Not at him, perhaps, but at the sight of a glob of saliva being propelled from his mouth?
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The scans and subsequent dissections showed a glob of fat sitting right next to the ear bones.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
  • Soon Robbie May emerged from the bathroom and into the living room, dressed and ready to go but for a blue glob on his face.
    — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Chef Serigne Mbaye focuses on the food of Senegal and its connection to cuisines around the glob.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The globs — along with some rocks and sand — were bagged for disposal and carried away by power boat.
    — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Or crouched in the apartment hallway, scooping up globs of spilled cheesecake with Rachel.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The dish to order: The aubergine melt, on rye with globs of gruyère cheese, yellow tomato jam and Calabrian chili.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2024
  • The center is a big glob of gloop—skip that bite, stay along the perimeter for a better balance of flaky crust to pumpkin gloop.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Pratt’s cows have been built from the same glob of Prairie Farms butter, stored in an ice cream factory freezer, for the last 17 years.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The scallops had started to go south in a sticky glob of sesame whatever with chicken.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Or, 'Oumuamua could have been a glob of porous ices that was lightweight enough for sunlight alone to give it a nudge.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Postseason baseball sprints like a glob of maple syrup across a plate of pancakes.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • In 2007, A Dutch schoolteacher named Hanny van Arkel discovered a weird green glob of gas in space.
    — Marcus Woo, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2015
  • The waxy globs are congealed sap that indicated plum curculio (worms) were in the fruit.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The shavings are carefully layered (so as to not become globs of meat) on a thick French roll.
    — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • Ninety-nine million years ago in what's now Myanmar, a glob of tree resin oozed onto a beach.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
  • There is a show here — and, frankly, much could be transformed simply by adding more fresh music and cutting globs of text.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The Barney-the-dinosaur-purple filling spills out the top of the roll, creating big globs of smooth, cool, ube custard up against the banana.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • The motions inside clouds are turbulent, with globs and eddies of gas swirling around like capricious fairies.
    — Nia Imara, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024

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