How to Use slobber in a Sentence
- The puppy slobbered all over me.
- Her baby just slobbered on the blanket.
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The pig slobbers mud on my right leg as Grace jaunts away.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
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Let two teams slobber, breathe and sweat all over each other for three hours?
—Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2020
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Your dog's favorite plush toy or squeaky ball can collect much more than just slobber.
—Taneia Surles, USA Today, 6 July 2026
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The prospect of bison slobbering on my grandson did not warm my heart.
—Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 25 Aug. 2017
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She's found that a walnut finish hides slobber residue on kitchen cabinets between frequent wipe-downs.
—Kit Selzer, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
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Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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Hijinks ensue, but no actual harm comes to big, slobbering Beethoven.
—Camille Perri, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
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Fortunately for Shaq, Kerr doesn’t seem all that into the idea of the big man slobbering all over his toes.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
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Naomie Harris might soon be facing off against Tom Hardy’s slobbering symbiote.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2019
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Think of Ivan Pavlov’s slobbering dogs, trained to salivate upon hearing a bell, even if they weren’t tempted with food.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
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Incontestably, love letters are, very often, slobbering slop.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
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Get tickets here or get marginally more information here, and/or read my overly long slobbering praise of w00tstock here.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
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No more Romo slobbering, Star Wars is dead & what's the best time for an NFL game?
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
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Was slobbering over Game of Thrones more important than word of mouth and powerful marketing?
—The Hive, 14 Sep. 2017
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Three dogs live there too, slobbering all over everything and shedding so much that twice-daily vacuuming is sometimes necessary.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
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Also sharing the premises is a large, slobbering bull mastiff dog, because no family film should be without adorable canine reaction shots.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
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The testing period went on for weeks and included lots of slobbering, chewing, snuggling, snoozing, batting and chasing.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
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For seven years, Trip has wobbled and slobbered his way into the hearts of Butler University players and fans.
—Dean Reynolds, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2020
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Bloomberg presumably has enough money to buy a personal pizza for himself instead of slobbering up whatever his campaign staffers have ordered.
—TheWeek, 3 Mar. 2020
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The true villain is Herod, who, in his hypocritical mixture of slobbering lust and grandstanding moralism, is a model man of power.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Bailey proved a charismatic if unpredictable surrogate, whacking things with his tail, rolling around with his paws in the air, munching on hoodies and slobbering on the volunteers.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
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In the video, Myron slobbers on Ari's stoic face before getting playful with another of her beloved pets, the beagle-chihuahua mix Toulouse.
—Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
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Related stories from Kansas City Star Boy found ‘slobbering at the mouth’ in 94-degree car.
—Jared Gilmour, kansascity, 5 June 2018
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In 2004, Helming’s barking, slobbering Newfoundland named Josh was a bow wow, winning best in show.
—Ben Walker, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
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Much as Pavlov trained his dog to slobber at a sound, Kamran dropped various smelly compounds into tanks full of pinkie-length salmon fry, then added food pellets to get the fish to associate the odors with their meals.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
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Football players slobber all over one other, but they are being regularly tested, and being on a team arguably gives them additional incentive to be careful—to wear masks and avoid parties.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
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In this seasonal crop of children’s books, readers can ramble on the beach, smash watermelons (and friendships) at summer camp, go hiking with a tiger and, on the very last day of summer, get slobbered on by a time-traveling platypus.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 24 May 2019
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With some coaxing, Lindy looks out and is horrified to realize that none of her coworkers are in the office — except Bertie Lester, who is being eaten by some sort of giant slobbering bug.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 31 May 2024
- I couldn't make out any of the panhandler's slobber, but I gave the poor soul a buck anyway.
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Momoa then gets up and laughs while wiping the slobber off his face.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2019
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The dog was also covered in slobber.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Your furry baby fills your life with love and joy; what’s a little slobber?
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 2 May 2019
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So what exactly qualifies as calf slobber, and where did the name come from?
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
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There’s way too much batting around the beach ball and not nearly enough slobber-knocking in the trenches.
—Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
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Nyati will look at the patch and tell you what the young bull was eating five minutes ago by the slobber on his muzzle.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
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The vets also said Henry was covered in slobber.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
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Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
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Police were unable to recover the toys from Ben, due to an excess of slobber.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
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She's found that a walnut finish hides slobber residue on kitchen cabinets between frequent wipe-downs.
—Kit Selzer, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
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My son, not one to linger when foreign baby slobber is enveloping one of his favorite toys, quickly snatched the toy out of the baby's hands.
—Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2017
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The practice of curiosity leads us into a place of openness and wonder — a drooling for more without the slobber.
—Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 1 June 2021
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Want a dog without all the yuck of slobber, belly rubs and unconditional devotion?
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 June 2020
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Orlando airport travelers might savor, in a way, squeaky cheeseburgers slathered in dog slobber.
—Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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Tongue hanging out, slobber trailing from his maw, the 4-year-old bulldog gives a push with his hind legs, hops up onto his custom skateboard and begins to cruise.
—Nathan Pilling, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2017
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Though gentle, the family weighs 460 pounds total, not including slobber.
—Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
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Pet urine and feces from accidents or animals who mark their territory can also add bad odors, and dog breeds that drool excessively can smell worse thanks to extra slobber.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
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Out on the lab’s playground where the students, puppy and undergraduate alike, roll and wrestle and woof and slobber under that Carolina blue sky.
—Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
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Even in the absence of extra outdoorsiness or dog slobber, Lim isn’t very concerned about the behavioral mitigations people picked up.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
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Other than getting covered in grizzly slobber, the system displayed no damage whatsoever.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 May 2019
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For example, hydrogen peroxide can help clean the slobber off of your One Direction statue.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
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But, until the drip, drip, drip of low-level grope-and-slobber stories accumulated, the case for his being pushed from office was not nearly as clear as the one against Conyers.
—Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
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Henry and Celia talk, a man whose directives grow clearer as the intentions behind them, behind this whole mysterious mess, grow more slippery (and as the actors’ makeup gets more distorted by slobber).
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2022
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