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How to use gob in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Gob means a lump of soft or sticky material. Example: “He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.”

Examples of gob by meaning

nounSaliva or phlegm.

  • He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.

nounA large amount.

  • gobs of money
  • The story of “Strangers” is a cliché of well-to-do Manhattan: Husband makes gobs of money.2026 January 11, Alex Kuczynski, “Her Life Was an Old-Money Dream. It Collapsed in a Moment.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

nounThe mouth.

  • He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
  • Oi, you, shut your gob!
  • She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.

nounWaste material in old mine workings, goaf.

  • This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 130, page 330

nounA sailor.

  • Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U.1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson...
  • Gobs are always amusing, as you know.1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April
  • Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94

More sentences with gob

  • Why don't you just shut your gob? I'm tired of listening to you.From the entry shut one's gob
  • I'b gob a cold, ob course.From the entry ob
  • "Haad yeor gob, ye lippy yap!"From the entry haad
  • Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry gob stick
  • The resulting goo gobs up around my molars, and I decide not to swallow it.2011, Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, →ISBN. From the entry gob up
  • It took longer to gob up the ammo but in Obadi's words it was “more satisfying”.2008, Stephan Ray Swimmer, Changing of Seasons, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry gob up
  • He has the stuff in gobs, but he hates giving up.1934, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 3 Duke of York Street St. James's…. From the entry oofy
  • “Thanks, Raj.” Frank was too hungry to worry about Raj’s gob gloop on the bar, and happily demolished it in seconds.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry demolish
  • Gob, Jack made him toe the line.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[12]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry toe the line
  • Pockmarks rise with hair all along his arm, and he reaches for a bottle and hacks up a big phlegmy gob of spit.2022, Jenni Fagan, Hex, Polygon, page 42. From the entry phlegmy
  • Living with another Saggie means you’ll never have to, you can both gob off to your heart’s content and no one will cry about it.2019 April 1, Kerry Ward, “Who your ideal housemates are, based on your star sign”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry Saggie
  • Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.2019, Jared Green, Santa: My Life and Times […], →ISBN, page 118. From the entry treesap
  • Did someone in the administration fear a repetition of Beatlemania, with decent, twist-dancing beatniki being replaced by pogo-dancing, sneering and gobbing impersonators of Johnny Rotten?2004, Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt, “The twists and turns of popular music policies”, in Rock in the Reservation: Songs from the Leningrad…. From the entry beatnik

Meaning of gob

  1. noun A lump of soft or sticky material.
  2. noun Saliva or phlegm.
  3. noun A whoopie pie.

Full definition of gob

Questions about gob in a sentence

How do you use gob in a sentence?
Gob is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.”
What is a short sentence with gob?
“gobs of money”
What does gob mean?
Gob means a lump of soft or sticky material.

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