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How to use fob in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Fob means a little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch. Example: “The gym will give you a fob that opens the door.”

More sentences with fob

  • The gym will give you a fob that opens the door.From the entry key
  • When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses.From the entry fob off
  • He fobbed off the forgery as genuine.From the entry fob off
  • They would fob us off with that and once more make it six and two threes.1962, Christopher John Brennan, Prose. From the entry six and two threes
  • Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr.1959, Dorothy Parker, “Ellery Queen: The New York Murders”, in The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, published 1976, pages 566–568. From the entry rape
  • She finds her key fob and unlocks the doors.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 416. From the entry key fob
  • I've also let my friends know that they are free to pass on (or possibly fob off) these "treasures" to someone else whenever appropriate.1994, Elaine St. James, Simplify Your Life. From the entry mathom
  • He turned suddenly from a chip of strawberries, drew a gold watch from his fob and held it at its chain's length.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry chip
  • Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to make a dingo's breakfast out of your life.'2013, Anna Romer, Thornwood House. From the entry dingo's breakfast
  • So, we are being fobbed off by second-rate American junk by smart aleck salesman from Pittsburgh while British factories stand empty and British workmen queue up for the dole.1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington). From the entry dole

Meaning of fob

  1. noun A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
  2. noun A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
  3. noun A small ornament attached to such a chain.

Full definition of fob

Questions about fob in a sentence

How do you use fob in a sentence?
Fob is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The gym will give you a fob that opens the door.”
What is a short sentence with fob?
“He fobbed off the forgery as genuine.”
What does fob mean?
Fob means a little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fob (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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