cobble

Example Sentences

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She comes only once a week, paid for by whatever funds the clinic can cobble together.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

It can help people who don’t know how to talk about themselves cobble a few sentences together about their hobbies or spit out some ideas to replace “Bios aren’t my thing.”

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026

Three governments in France have collapsed in less than a year, as they struggled to cobble together support in the fragmented National Assembly to pass a budget and narrow France’s widening deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

BLS statisticians will have to cobble together the report after asking businesses and employees well after the fact about who was employed.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy