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How to use goof in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Goof means a mistake or error. Example: “I made a goof in that last calculation.”

Examples of goof by meaning

nounA mistake or error.

  • I made a goof in that last calculation.

nounA foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.

  • Your little brother is a total goof.

verbTo make a mistake.

  • It's my fault. I goofed.
  • GCN is in a sticky situation because we goofed and bought 10 pounds of a type of wax that we cannot use.1986 August 9, “Attention Art World”, in Gay Community News, page 13

verbTo engage in mischief.

  • We were just goofing by painting the neighbor's cat green.

More sentences with goof

  • If I go near a skateboard, I'm sure I'm just going to goof up and fall off.From the entry goof up
  • I tried to fix it, but I think I just goofed it up some more.From the entry goof up
  • Beats me how he finds out when we're goofing off.From the entry beats me
  • He sat there goofing off all day instead of working.From the entry goof off
  • He goofed off this whole project.From the entry goof off
  • The students were goofing on the food safety training, pretending to eat off the floor, to shortchange their handwashing, and so on.From the entry goof on
  • The point is that Twitter used to be about goofing off and making each other laugh.2019 November 19, Angela Watercutter, “With #Fartgate, Twitter Was a Gas Once Again”, in WIRED. From the entry flatulate
  • Far from being simple goofs, an eggcorn provides a glimpse into everyday thought processes.2006 March 1, Mark Peters, “Word watch: The eggcorn: A funny little poem and symptom of human intelligence and creativity”, in Psychology…. From the entry eggcorn
  • Taking along a pint of P.G. and a large supply of goof balls to taper off.1948, William S. Burroughs, letter, 30 Nov 1948. From the entry pg
  • Jill was goofing off with what she had every reason to believe was a prop gun and not the real thing.2020, Mystery Most Theatrical, page 18. From the entry prop gun
  • Spotting sign goofs is a roadgeek's pastime.2004 August 16, Kevin Flynn, “Drivers Urged To Forgo Car Once A Week”, in Rocky Mountain News. From the entry roadgeek
  • They sing more, goof around more.1989, Patricia McConnel, Sing Soft, Sing Loud, page 60. From the entry zombie out
  • Estimate the percentage of your time you spent goofing off: reading nonwork material, throwing the bull with co-workers, taking long lunch hours, flirting, etc.1985, William N. Yeomans, 1000 Things You Never Learned in Business School: How to Manage Your Fast-Track Career, New York, N.Y.: Mentor…. From the entry throw the bull
  • The practice of this became an everyday ritual where, instead of press-ups for punishment if you goofed off, the offending student had to execute twenty parachute rolls.2014, Phil Tomkins, Once A Soldier, page 19. From the entry parachute roll

Meaning of goof

  1. noun A mistake or error.
  2. noun An error made during production which finds its way into the final release.
  3. noun A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.

Full definition of goof

Questions about goof in a sentence

How do you use goof in a sentence?
Goof is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I made a goof in that last calculation.”
What is a short sentence with goof?
“It's my fault. I goofed.”
What does goof mean?
Goof means a mistake or error.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: goof (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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