How to Use blob in a Sentence

blob

noun
  • That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for.
  • The bigger the blob on the screen, the bigger the fish.
    Matt Williams, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • As the ‘blob’ has warmed, the air above it has as well.
    Priya Shukla, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In the first proof, the kids are mere black blobs, the room around them spare.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the blobs of light were pairs of Jupiter-mass objects.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • This big blob over the Atlantic could spark things to watch.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022
  • About an hour into the dive, a white-ish blob emerged in the distance.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • To end the video, the camera zooms out to show the CGI humanoids forming a large blob.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Over the next day and a half, this blob becomes a new polyp, which can then form more medusae.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • So here’s to a cute little pink blob that has filled our hearts with joy for 30 years.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Guests, meanwhile, spent the day enjoying the camp grounds including the pool and the blob on the lake.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The queue in London is more of an orderly blob than a line.
    WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
  • How does the featureless blob that is the early embryo know what to make and where to make it?
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Then an echo-sounder detected a blob of krill that spread for miles below the ship.
    Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The centerpiece of that view was a blue-green blob that stretched for miles — the lake at Badwater.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Sticky black blobs of oil are washing up on Texas’ shorelines again.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • This means that, to a hungry reindeer, the lichens look like blobs of black in a sea of white, even when they are buried beneath the snow.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Each blob is its own mini puzzle, and all the blobs join to form an 8 x 8-inch bubblescape.
    Gear Team, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021
  • But the actors who haunt the Edge of Hell and the Beast have only one goal: to reduce us to quivering blobs of fear.
    Robert Trussell, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Your blob of butter-bobbed dough will be rolled and folded, then rolled and folded again.
    Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • My chest might have looked like a miniature quilt of puffy blobs for a day or two afterward.
    Alice Hart-Davis, ELLE, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There was a massive white blob on the water, which the pilot identified as one of the lake's dead alewife slicks.
    Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • That was until Lily pointed to a furry black blob about 100 yards up the sidewalk.
    Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2023
  • In other words, in the midst of a foreign blob of metal-poor stars was a group of metal-rich stars native to the Milky Way.
    Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
  • These were placed along the walls of the service core, the central blob of elevators and toilets.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
  • Each nail features two abstract green blobs that really pop against the deep backdrop.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In due time the architect came up with an undulating single-story blob that people hated.
    Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
  • By the time Mother’s Day rolls around and the garden center check-out line is out the door, witchhazels look like so many big green blobs in pots.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Once the polish is fully dry and hardened, use a credit card or your fingers to lift under the blob and break it off.
    Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Now add a blob of water, wetting some of the sand.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026

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