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How to use glob in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Glob means a round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. Example: “He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.”

Examples of glob by meaning

nounA round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

  • He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
  • It’s been three days, but it seems longer—slow, like the time I imagine it’d take to melt a house of this size into a wax glob.2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN

More sentences with glob

  • Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs.2015 June 27, bulk 88, “documentation: do we want perlblurb?”, in perl.perl5.porters (Usenet). From the entry copypasta
  • “Maybe I will have one of these sashimi,” I said, reaching for a slimy pink glob.2012, Laura Levine, chapter 13, in Death of a Neighborhood Witch (A Jaine Austen Mystery; 11), New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN…. From the entry sashimi
  • It's four pizzas stacked on top of each other and baked into an ooey, gooey, tomato saucey glob of happiness.2014 October 19, Adriana Velez, “'Pizza Cake’ Recipe Gets Shared Like Crazy: Here’s How to Do It! (PHOTOS)”, in CafeMom, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry tomato saucey
  • I watch as the mason at the Gilbert house picks up a glob of parge coat on his trowel.1990 May, Cheryl M. Fiorillo, “Lightweight block, heavyweight insulator”, in Popular Science, volume 236, number 5, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry parge
  • She dabbed a French fried potato in a glob of catsup, but stopped midway, placing it on her plate again.1988, Paula Williams, Lovesong, Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry french fried potato
  • Laurette says he is a really sick person to care more about some globs of frozen cow juice than a young girl's self-esteem.1992, Susan White, Bad Baby-Sitter's Handbook, page 20. From the entry frozen cow juice
  • Jain would mix all his food into one glob at lunch so as to be more yogically detached from pleasure but I couldn't get to that point.2010, Ravi Dass, The Sacred Wanderer, page 83. From the entry yogically
  • The evident enjoyment with which he dipped a French fried potato into a glob of ketchup, then plopped it into his mouth, repaid Kristi in part.1984, Beatrice Warren, Nurse Kristi’s Secret, Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry french fried potato

Meaning of glob

  1. noun A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
  2. noun A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
  3. verb To stick in globs or lumps.

Full definition of glob

Questions about glob in a sentence

How do you use glob in a sentence?
Glob is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.”
What is a short sentence with glob?
“He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.”
What does glob mean?
Glob means a round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glob (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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