goo

Example Sentences

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Where we might see unwelcome green goo, the Reavies of the world see “really interesting organisms” that are omnipresent, important, and full of information.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 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

Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025

Then she pushed off, propelling herself up through the goo.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis