goo

Example Sentences

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Indigenous people and Spanish settlers utilized the viscous goo for medicinal purposes and waterproofing boats.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

When the ROV returns, there is an excited dash for the samples including seawater, sediment and a forearm-length sea lily coated with dripping orange goo.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

But it’s taken years to study him and clean off his sticky goo, a naturally occurring asphalt mixture of sand, gravel, clay and crude oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The problem, though, is that the brick-coloured goo, which is dried into a powder, looks distinctly unappetising – even less appetising than the freeze-dried fare that astronauts currently have to put up with.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

There’s something about him that makes me feel as if I’m smeared in an awful, warm goo.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez