Examples of goblin in a Sentence

dressed up the toddlers like goblins for Halloween

Recent Examples on the Web Everyone wants puppies; not everyone wants a decrepit goblin with dental disease. — Elena Lacey, Wired, 5 Nov. 2020 All manner of businesses—hairdressers, dry cleaners, hardware stores, pasta shops—in my neighborhood are decorated in some variation of the ghost-goblin-witch-pumpkin schtick these days. — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020 The autumn sun gives the greens of the fields an impossible, mythic radiance and transforms the back roads into light-muddled paths where a goblin with a riddle, or a pretty maiden with a basket, could be waiting around every gorse-and-bramble bend. — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020 Those who have the courage can create their own groups and meet Sherry Spenzer (local author, historian and chief ghost-and-goblin tour director) at the mysterious cemetery located at 32808 Lake Road in Avon Lake. — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2020 Along the way, yokai transformed from superstition to satire, as artists began employing goblins to slyly comment on politics or current events. — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2020 On the eve of Hannukah, Hershel must use his wits and courage to defeat the goblins, who are fierce and scary, but also foolish. — Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019 The recognizable shops still line the set, including Ollivanders, Flourish & Blotts, as well as the goblin bank, Gringotts, and a later addition, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2020 This musical adaptation of Eric Kimmel’s timeless story about Hershel of Ostropol and his fight against a series of goblins who haunt the old synagogue returns to Strawdog, featuring a book by Michael Dailey and music and lyrics by Jacob Combs. — Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019

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