goop

Example Sentences

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Two problems: At the time, renewable energy cost too much to make it affordable, and adding water usually turns quicklime into an unwieldy goop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Duck à l’orange has a reputation as an archaic 1970s atrocity owing to American cooks bastardizing what should be a glistening garnish into a sickly-sweet goop.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

And in that goop is where our show lives.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Train cars on the tunnel’s custom-built rail line carried the muck to a drop shaft in Ballard, where a crane with a clamshell bucket grabbed the goop.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

I hold up a corner bit of postcard that’s covered in red goop.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller