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How to use goblet in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Goblet means a drinking vessel with a foot and stem. Example: “No man will ever again drink from this golden goblet!”

Examples of goblet by meaning

nounA drinking vessel with a foot and stem.

  • sup wine from a goblet
  • No man will ever again drink from this golden goblet!1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40
  • At first Enkidu gags on the food, but then he grows to like the strong drink and takes seven goblets, until his face glows.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...

More sentences with goblet

  • I rub my finger around the rim of the goblet until it hums its menacing tone.2012 August 7, F. J. Lennon, Devil's Gate: A Kane Pryce Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry ectometer
  • Drink Stella in goblets like people do in its native country and, hey presto!2011, Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind. From the entry wifebeater
  • Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.2007 June 3, David Colman, “When in the Netherlands...”, in New York Times. From the entry handblown
  • The Khatun covered her face, then grabbed at the arm of a servant, who quickly poured more kumiss into Bortai's goblet.2014, Pamela Sargent, Ruler of the Sky. From the entry khatun
  • A shadow paced behind the window, sipping from a goblet, pausing occasionally to stare at the wind-swept scene below.2000, Jason Fury, His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips, page 10. From the entry scrungy
  • He wiped off the foam with a beer stick which resembled a white ruler, and set the goblet down in front of Tom.2021, Donald Henderson Clarke, Lady Ann. From the entry beer stick
  • He took a great gulp of wine from an oxen horn goblet and with a sigh slammed it down on the conference table.2015, Amulon Theophilus, Elomaneck: Duraban Rebels. From the entry oxen
  • Goblet cells (black arrows) are interspersed amongst epithelial cells with cytofilia extensions (green arrows) similar to those more extensively expressed in the third eyelid.2015 November 13, “Histological and Ultrastructural Studies on the Conjunctiva of the Barred Owl ( Strix varia )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry cytofilia
  • Small padlike feet appeared at the rim, and then the creature heaved itself out of the goblet and hopped away to the south-southeast.2004, Sara Douglass, Threshold, page 306. From the entry padlike
  • He stopped and took proper note, as possibly no one else ever had, of the Waterford goblets and candy dishes that Enid kept on display in the breakfront.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry breakfront

Meaning of goblet

  1. noun A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.

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Questions about goblet in a sentence

How do you use goblet in a sentence?
Goblet is used as a noun. For example: “No man will ever again drink from this golden goblet!”
What is a short sentence with goblet?
“sup wine from a goblet”
What does goblet mean?
Goblet means a drinking vessel with a foot and stem.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goblet (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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