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How to use mob in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mob means a large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. Example: “See also: Mob (the masses)”

Examples of mob by meaning

nounA large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

  • See also: Mob (the masses)

nounA group of kangaroos.

  • The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group.2004, Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury, A Mob of Kangaroos, Heinemann Library, page 9

nounA group of any marsupial.

  • There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here!2024, Tylissa Elisara, Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky, Hachette Australia
  • Sex difference in size is so marked, that one familiar with the animals, can easily pick out the males in a mob when some distance away.1931, Bulletin, New York Zoological Society, page 34

nounA group of emus.

  • In the gated area nearest the barn and the pond, there were goats and sheep, llamas and ponies, and a mob of emus.2015, Doug Geeting, Running with the Mob: Stories About the Emus on the Farm
  • Not even Wellington's horse rode with greater precipitancy upon Napoleon's troops at Waterloo than Dick advanced upon the mob of emus.1925, Joseph Bowes, The Fur-hunters in Australian Wilds, Humphrey Milford

nounA mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

  • See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)
  • He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...
  • The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating troops and accompanying civilian Christian mobs.1979, P. K. Jensen, “The Greco-Turkish war, 1920–1922”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 10, number 4, Cambridge...

nounA group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a...

  • There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.2011 March 10, Allan Clarke, W.A. through Noongar eyes
  • There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The...

verbTo crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.

  • The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
  • Politicians have been turning up to Glastonbury for years, but this year the leader of the opposition was among the most hotly anticipated attractions: when he arrived on site, his Land Rover was mobbed by fans.2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian

verbTo crowd into or around a place.

  • The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.

More sentences with mob

  • Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.From the entry add
  • The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.From the entry torch
  • Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.From the entry exchange
  • The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.From the entry fixed
  • He keeps tagging my mobs and I miss out on all the drops.From the entry tag
  • If the mob thinks you did it, they'll run you out of town.From the entry run out
  • The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.From the entry garrote
  • During the looting, the mob stole everything they could and then set fire to the buildings.From the entry looting
  • The lobby will get mobbed if you don't push people through quickly.From the entry push through
  • The mob boss had numerous pimps and drug dealers on her paylist.From the entry paylist
  • An angry mob started looting the warehouse.From the entry angry
  • The riot squad tear gassed the mob.From the entry tear gas
  • The police gathered to contain the unruly mob.From the entry unruly
  • The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.From the entry baying
  • A faceless mob attacked the Capitol building.From the entry faceless
  • When the mob men finally found him, they gave him a good going over that left him clinging to life.From the entry going over
  • He got smoked by the mob.From the entry smoke
  • The mob rolled the car over.From the entry roll over
  • The mob wife, by comparison, is a little more grown up.2024 January 23, “What Does the "Mob Wife Aesthetic" Actually Mean?”, in Harper's Bazaar, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, Inc.…. From the entry mob wife
  • In the Long Bar, you had 'Chuck' Berry and his mob.2023 November 2, Martin Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies, Oxford University Press…. From the entry headbanger
  • Soon, the girls were surrounded by a mob of thirty Muslim men and boys.2022, Orlean Koehle, Islam Rising: Christianity Waning in Europe and the USA. From the entry taharrush
  • He was attacked by a mob of Chinese construction corps soldiers.2019, Rukiye Turdush, “How China tried to stop my freedom of speech — in Canada”, in Washington Post. From the entry East Turkestan
  • The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.2018, Gerry Woodhouse, Lord Damnus: Conqueror of the World. From the entry shekel
  • How many Trumpublicans run big cities up in the mobbed up union states?2018 August 30, <gfre...@aol.com>, “Survey: 1-in-3 Gov Workers Could Leave Union”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet). From the entry Trumpublican
  • The heavy mob from the Tactical Aid Group finally turned up and closed the club.2016, Peter Walsh, Gang War. From the entry heavy mob
  • All gangstalkers then suddenly descend upon the target as a mob.2015 March 19, Renee Pittman, The Targeting of Myron May: Florida State University Gunman: Asst. DA Pushed Over the Edge (Mind Control…. From the entry gangstalker

Meaning of mob

  1. noun A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
  2. noun The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
  3. noun A group of animals of any kind.

Full definition of mob

Questions about mob in a sentence

How do you use mob in a sentence?
Mob is used as a noun and verb. For example: “See also: Mob (the masses)”
What is a short sentence with mob?
“See also: Mob (the masses)”
What does mob mean?
Mob means a large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mob (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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