How to Use mob in a Sentence

mob

1 of 2 noun

• The police had to be called in to handle the growing mob.
• The angry mob smashed store windows and attacked people on the streets.
• He was jailed for his dealings with the Mob.
• Wait for the looky-loo mob to subside.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2025
• The public scares me, mobs scare me.
  — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
• To do so, the men must plunge into and wend their way through a mob.
  — Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
• Some of these mob guys that were in the war would sit with me after the show.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
• The 16-year-old boy was charged with mob action.
  — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
• The tour tells the story of the city from its mob roots to today.
  — Michael Easter, Men's Health, 9 June 2023
• On their way, a mob encountered them and beat the son to death.
  — Sania Farooqui, CNN, 7 May 2023
• An angry mob of white adults hurled slurs and spat on the high schoolers.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
• She was attacked by violent mobs over and over again.
  — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
• Pro-slavery mobs sacked and burned Kansas towns.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• Not one mob but two awaits him as his casket rolls out of the factory gates.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• The growing mob crashes toward the ground again.
  — Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
• Picklers have been known to mob courts, with matches known to start at dawn in some instances.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
• But they’re not made members of the McAlbert mob.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
• All that’s missing is a bloodthirsty, vengeful mob.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
• The son’s mob handle is Mini Lic.
  — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
• Why are we obsessed as a mob with always killing the messenger?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• Hoffman spoke with Variety about door men, mob men and rich men.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
• Meanwhile, Gutierrez has tried to get the angry mob back on his side.
  — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 June 2026
• Until one day, her press was destroyed by the same angry mob that had threatened her life.
  — Case Thorp, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
• An aging Texas Ranger and a mob thirsty for law and order take their shot(s).
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• But white Cincinnati men were already forming mobs.
  — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
• On her way to testify in a mob case, Holloway is killed by a hitman.
  — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
• In the show, two musicians have to flee the city after witnessing a mob hit.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• In it, two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 June 2026
• Beyond that, there’s some mob wife—a bit Sharon Stone in Casino.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2025
• The Marine turned and rushed the teen who struck him and a mob of people surrounded the pair.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023

mob

2 of 2 verb

• Shoppers mobbed the stores during the holidays.
• The actor's fans mobbed him wherever he went.
• The tears flowed as he was mobbed by his team-mates.
  — James Pearce, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• Crowds mobbed the store to be the first to get their hands on the fresh stock.
  — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• His teammates burst out of the dugout and mob him at the mound.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 2021
• Bertuzzi was mobbed by his teammates at the glass and hats were flung onto the ice.
  — Scott Powers, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• Toward Tuanzebe and the rest of the team that mobs him.
  — Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
• Fans mobbed him like a Hollywood star.
  — Mike Valerio, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
• Middleton subbed out late in the game and was mobbed by his teammates.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2020
• When the players are finished, fans mob the spike to sign it themselves.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• That was probably the last time Daniel could walk around and not get mobbed.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2024
• Senzel slid into the plate was mobbed by teammates who rushed out of the dugout.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2019
• Her grand slam sailed over the left field wall to tie the game, and she was mobbed by her teammates at home plate.
  — Molly Keshin, New York Times, 19 May 2026
• Schjelderup jumped on his back, and the rest of the Norway team began to mob him.
  — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 6 July 2026
• And then he got mobbed by teammates who tried to rip the jersey off the shortstop’s chest.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 3 June 2023
• As the clock ticked to zero, the Blues mobbed the ice in victory.
  — Nathan Becker, WSJ, 15 June 2019
• On a world tour this year, he was mobbed by a crowd of adoring fans at an event in London.
  — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
• It was mobbed with patrons – and protestors.
  — Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Of course, the Irish emptied the bench to mob him after the winning shot.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2021
• Santana circled the bases and was mobbed at home by his overjoyed teammates.
  — Tom Withers, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• The countdown to closing had begun with a clearance sale, and the store was mobbed.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
• Freeman was mobbed by teammates after hitting the walk-off home run.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025
• The captain sank to his knees on the halfway line, mobbed by his exultant team-mates.
  — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• The captain sank to his knees on the halfway line, mobbed by his exultant team-mates.
  — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• Seconds after the final buzzer, the Xavier bench cleared and mobbed in front of its fans.
  — Jason Hoffman, Cincinnati.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• This cast of characters that walk around our events [was] being mobbed more than Idris was.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Foligno, who lost his stick in the scramble, made a huge jump into the boards and got mobbed by teammates.
  — Michael Russo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Reedy, holding his arms up, stands nose-to-nose with De León as others mob the pair.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2022
• Rocky was headlining shows the last two or three years with no new music, and people still mobbed out to the hits.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2026
• Players mobbed senior Kara Dunn.
  — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026