gob
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When he dismisses a contagion that killed millions as a “global gob of spit,” Mr. Tesson seems unfeeling and out of touch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
The seagull with the bread in his gob was the best of it.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
But when such a person appears in a context where I'd least expect them – where, by all rights, they don't need to be – that is a real smack to the old gob.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
The most gob smacking is when the hunky dancer Campbell Caspary walks down a flight of stairs on his hands.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Grandma said, Oh, will you shut your gob.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
The results were huge canvases excitedly smeared, spattered, daubed, dribbled and gobbed with color in the shape of freewheeling overall designs, as if the artists had been playing with paints and got carried away.
From Time Magazine Archive
I gobbed on the melted liquid, but I made a mess of it, the solder dripping down the tubing and the washer not on straight.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
“I would’ve if it had been me . . . wouldn’t have wanted everyone watching. What if the goblet just gobbed you right back out again?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
It's puzzle to tell: But he gobble an' gobbed an' he slobber and slobbed Until nottings was lef' of de stuff but de smell!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by MacKay, Angus
"I've been here 10 years and he's gobbing off at me, driving standards," Marler says, describing his thoughts at the time.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
It wasn’t about snarling and shouting and gobbing in the street.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2019
And then you end up in Crawley with about 1,000 skinheads gobbing at you.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2019
Today "flobbing" or "gobbing" as it's colloquially known, is considered by many to be ugly, anti-social and potentially disease spreading.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2011
Younger generations who've come to consider the gobbing fans and safety pins of punk a bit passé have, in Crass, at least one largely unmined source of anarchy that doesn't seem played out.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2010
