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How to use globe in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Globe means the eyeball. Example: “The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.”

Examples of globe by meaning

nounA part of a device, often a lamp.

  • the globe of a lamp

nounA light bulb.

  • Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting.1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10, page 26

nounA woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.

  • This year, she wore a silver and cream Zuhair Murad that showed off all of her best assets, which even caused Jeremy Renner to blurt out a comment about her “globes” on stage.2015 January 15, Paige Reddinger, “The Golden Globes 2015: A Full Tapis Rouge Rundown”, in Fashion Week Daily, archived from the original...
  • 'I got my wig out and my globes,' she joked to E!2016 January 11, Caitlin O’Toole, “'I got my wig out and my globes': Katy Perry wears big hair and a VERY low-cut pink dress on red...

More sentences with globe

  • The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.From the entry race
  • Each day the postal service flies thousands of letters around the globe.From the entry fly
  • The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.From the entry flash
  • Remember those clear globe dispensers with gumballs for a penny?From the entry gumball
  • It's one of the first local signs of an "electrotech" revolution that's sweeping the globe.2026 June 13, Marco Chown Oved, “Why Ontario’s big move to battery storage has observers saying ‘gas plants aren't competitive anymore’…. From the entry peaker
  • At the beginning of the twentieth century Nantucketers still divided the whole globe into on-island and off-island.2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association, archived from the original on…. From the entry off-island
  • Meanwhile, French ropeway transport company POMA SAS specialises in rope-operated systems around the globe.2024 March 6, “Network News: Companies invited to bid for HS2 Interchange light rail contract”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 18. From the entry ropeway
  • A particularly cool example of a plasma is one of those “Eye of the Storm” plasma globes.2020, Don Lincoln, The Large Hadron Collider, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry plasma globe
  • But the reality is that green-covered towers – plantscrapers – are springing up across the globe.2018 August 25, Greg Callaghan, “Why plantscrapers are springing up across the globe”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW: Nine…. From the entry plantscraper
  • Exporting advanced services across the globe, they represent mini-economies in themselves.2016, Alec Ross, The Industries of the Future. From the entry alpha city
  • Mainly because I've cut a hole in them so his 'bro globes' can get some fresh air.2016, Ben Phillips, Sorry Bro!, page 110. From the entry bro globes
  • Convection currents in the mantle move the plates around the surface of the globe.2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes…. From the entry semimolten
  • A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 296. From the entry bubble
  • Tens of thousands of adults around the globe have been drawn into the land of Equetria—into bronyism.2013, Drew McLachlan, "Nothing phony behind bronies", The Navigator (Vancouver Island University), Volume 44, Issue 12, 6 March 2013 - 19…. From the entry bronyism
  • Bandits, raiders, and pirates have plagued civilized peoples around the globe for millennia.2013 Winter, Robert J. Bunker, "Defeating Violent Nonstate Actors," Strategic Studies Institute—U.S. Army War College (retrieved 24 May…. From the entry nonstate actor
  • Crop circles are found in other parts of the globe, but not many.2010 August 19, Clive Aslet, “Crop circles: The mystery that keeps us going round in circles”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry Wessex
  • Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills, Atlantic Books, →ISBN. From the entry Godzilla
  • How could they live for so many years inside the fact globe?”2008, Jason Carter Eaton, The Facttracker, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 5, 172, and 256. From the entry waitaminute
  • Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune. From the entry tweet
  • Fans across the globe from Franklin Roosevelt to Mussolini applauded his antics in the films that followed.2007, Todd G. Buchholz, New ideas from dead CEOs. From the entry Mickeymania
  • At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.2006, Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman, volume 14, numbers 4-6, page 114. From the entry prospective
  • Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe.2005 April 30, Melinda Newman, “Q&A”, in Billboard, number 18, page 31. From the entry Starbucks
  • Schoolchildren around the globe have gleefully sung Torches at Christmastime for half a century.2002 February 21, Christopher Morley, “Culture: Children carry a torch for carol king; John Joubert will be 75 next month”, in The…. From the entry wassail
  • In addition to being anti-biotechnology, there are also many anti-vaccination groups active around the globe.2000 November, Lorne A Babiuk, “Vaccination: present realities and future prospects”, in Microbiology Australia, volume 21, number 5, The…. From the entry anti-vaccination
  • The globe valve corebox is actually a dump type made in half sections.1986, George B. Helman, Patternmaker 3 & 2, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, page 13_26. From the entry corebox
  • The “cabbagehead” (Stomolophus meleagris), like other jellyfish, drifts on the ocean currents that ceaselessly cross the globe.1984, Lawrence S. Earley, Wildlife in North Carolina, page 22. From the entry cabbagehead
  • This is the richest, the most powerful country which ever occupied this globe.1965 March 15, Lyndon B. Johnson, 43:30 from the start, in Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights…. From the entry might
  • Contemporality does not mean, however, that they occupy the same geo-physical moment of time on the globe.1964: Iqbal Academy (Lahore, Pakistan), Iqbal review, volume 5, page 78. From the entry contemporality
  • Bugs has picked up a helicopterful of musical souvenirs on his harmonious hop around the globe.1958, “Bugs’s Musical Globe-Hopper”, in Bugs Bunny’s Vacation Funnies, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.. From the entry helicopterful
  • Amateur astronomers needn't do a lot of mathematical pencilwork with this clear, all-plastic celestial globe.1948 November, “Globe Aids Star Study”, in Popular Science, page 243. From the entry pencilwork
  • It was the hundredth beacon globe to be broken in Finsbury since November.1935 January 10, “Cyclists air their grievances on road safety”, in The Guardian. From the entry Belisha beacon
  • A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 6. From the entry daddy-long-legs
  • The crystal globe of the Mystic aids the vengesome Sheik, and he recovers the gem.1916, The Moving Picture World, volume 28, page 287. From the entry vengesome
  • Dozens of energy beacons—mostly dormant—had flared online across the globe.2025 May 23, William Ubagan, “Chapter 7 The Shadow Protocol”, in The Lost Travelers, Publish Drive. From the entry D.U.M.B.
  • Emboldened by the women, and men, who have spoken up, the “Weinstein Effect” is rippling across the globe.2017 November 14, Aron Heller, “‘Weinstein Effect’ goes global as powerful men confronted”, in AP News. From the entry Weinstein effect
  • The pint-size singer stunned Harmonizers around the globe when she announced her shock split from Fifth Harmony in December.2017 February 9, Lara Atson, “20 facts about Camila Cabello”, in You. From the entry harmonizer

Meaning of globe

  1. noun The eyeball.
  2. noun A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
  3. noun A part of a device, often a lamp.

Full definition of globe

Questions about globe in a sentence

How do you use globe in a sentence?
Globe is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.”
What is a short sentence with globe?
“the globe of a lamp”
What does globe mean?
Globe means the eyeball.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: globe (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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