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How to use slobber in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Slobber means liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth. Example: “There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.”

Examples of slobber by meaning

nounLiquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.

  • There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.

nounA dribbly shower (of rain).

  • "Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely."2014 March 27, Alan Garner, Thursbitch: From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker, Random House, →ISBN, page 93

nounMud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:slobber.

verbTo allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth.

  • All babies slobber.

verbTo fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.

  • All day rain slobbered through the streets, across lawns, into my grandfather's basement.2005, The Georgia Review
  • Drool slobbered out of the beast's mouth.2006 September 12, Warrior Girl, Sfx Fantasy / Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 14
  • Rain slobbered on my legs, making them slick and cold, sending shivers across my skin.2016 January 5, Brenda Drake, Thief of Lies, Entangled: Teen, →ISBN

verbTo kiss.

  • Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 165

More sentences with slobber

  • That was a real slobber knocker of a football game.From the entry slobber knocker
  • There was slobber on his hand, and his toast was missing.2019, AK Faulkner, Sigils of Spring (Inheritance; book seven), Ravensword Press, →ISBN. From the entry cronch
  • Slobbers is a symptom of another problem, such as an abscessed tooth or contaminated hay.2015 April 21, Sue Weaver, Ann Larkin Hansen, Cherie Langlois, Arie McFarlen, Chris McLaughlin, Hobby Farm Animals: A Comprehensive Guide…. From the entry slobbers
  • "I luh you, Carmiesha," I said, slobber dripping from my mouth.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry luh
  • Slobbers is the layman's term for moist dermatitis around the face or dewlap, usually caused by ptyalism and dental disease.2024 March 22, Barbara L. Oglesbee, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Small Mammal, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 557. From the entry slobbers
  • “When he wakes up I want him followed to whatever sewer he crawled out of!” Primo slobbered commands.2014, Dorothy Davies, Dangerous Dreams, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry rat-fuck
  • The chimpette screeches again, spraying Hericane's face with slobber.2012, Robert T. Jeschonek, Forced Betrayal. From the entry chimpette
  • So I go over and spend 10-15 minutes talking and doing head scratchies and getting slobbered on and kissed.1994 September 26, Andrea Dec, “Sniff, sniff, sniffsniffSNORT”, in rec.pets.dogs (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Sep 2025. From the entry scratchie
  • Winded and slobbering in a halfsleep.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 55, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 269. From the entry halfsleep
  • In a fit of drunkenness, Da had slobbered out the sort of rumor our own local pubbies wouldn't half heed, chin-drowned in gin as they were.2015, C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans: Stories, page 143. From the entry pubbie
  • I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.2004, Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount, page 70. From the entry woman
  • Ended up as pavement-pizza, but astoundingly still alive, now simply existing in a semi-vegetable state, a crippled slobbering mess, physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his sorry life.2008, Christopher Nosnibor, The Plagiarist, page 107. From the entry pavement pizza

Meaning of slobber

  1. noun Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
  2. noun A dribbly shower (of rain).
  3. noun Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.

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Questions about slobber in a sentence

How do you use slobber in a sentence?
Slobber is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.”
What is a short sentence with slobber?
“All babies slobber.”
What does slobber mean?
Slobber means liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.

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