How to Use cobble in a Sentence

cobble

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• Even down 23 in the fourth quarter, the Magic were able to cobble together a run of their own to cut the deficit to 13 at the end.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• The club has shown the ability to cobble together a strong bullpen.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• UConn football will play a lot of road games to pay the bills and hope to cobble together enough wins against bad teams to make a minor bowl game.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Kudos to the Vox Media team and Boorstin, who were able to cobble it together quickly.
  — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• Doing odd jobs along the way, Cosmi and his wife were able to cobble together money for food and buses to the doorstep of the United States.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Twitter shareholders didn’t seem to believe that Mr. Musk would be able to get the funds to cobble together a bid.
  — Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• In ancient Tyre, a quaint port city of fishermen, cobbled streets and markets, fears are sky-high that violence will soon spread to the rest of Lebanon.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• The parties have nearly three months to cobble together a new coalition.
  — Josef Federman, ajc, 27 Oct. 2022
• Districts have cobbled together funds to make some improvements over the years.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024
• Few other coaches could have cobbled together such a team out of nine new players.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The news came as a surprise that a team, who just a few months ago was struggling to cobble together personnel for a two-car team, decided to jump to add a third.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2022
• The two would cobble together a remix, for which Bad Bunny adopted a norteño cadence to match Cano’s bristly acoustic guitar work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• Biden has been unable to cobble together the bipartisan support needed to get a bill to his desk.
  — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• Now, as Morgan hobbled off the court, unable to put weight on his right foot, USC would have to cobble together a new frontcourt, counting on the rest of its lineup to clamp down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• The game was another example of a varied mix of first-team players finding a way to cobble together a win by any means.
  — The Enquirer, 5 June 2023
• Youngkin's goal from the outset of the campaign has been to cobble together a coalition that includes the diehard Trump supporters and those who left the party in response to the caustic leader.
  — Dan Merica, Eric Bradner and Eva McKend, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
• Even the most backward of countries can cobble together a nuclear weapon — look at North Korea.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
• At age 24, after three years in the business, Hsieh decided to cobble together his funds and make an offer to Tricor’s owners to buy them out.
  — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Shanté brought groceries, and Eli stands by the stove, cobbling together the kimchi and potatoes and pork under boiling water.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Handed a chance to cobble together a coalition government, Netanyahu failed to muster enough support to cross the 61-seat threshold.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 2 June 2021
• But the only way the 44-43 Sox can entertain even a thought of making the playoffs is to cobble together enough quality innings out of the rotation.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• As the story goes, the youngster has cobbled together his version of a rodeo using his playthings, and theme-park visitors once again are considered the size of toys.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
• From homemade ones cobbled together from tree branches and rubber bands to wrist rockets and more, no tin can or soda bottle was safe.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• The teams’ similarities could make for a low-scoring game in which whoever is able to cobble together the most offense will come out on top.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• After cobbling together insurance and other reimbursements, the net cost to the city was $9.9 million, the city said.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• And all of these families were able to pull of a magic trick last spring and summer by cobbling together emergency resources to make sure their children are safe and cared for.
  — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• The project took years to complete, though, and lots of delicate work to cobble together government funding, Ms. Rentner said.
  — Raymond Zhong Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The company’s footwear was first cobbled together by Johann Adam Birkenstock in Germany in 1774.
  — Michelle Chapman, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
• PiS, according to analysts, could cobble together enough votes to override the Senat if the bill returns to the lower chamber.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2021
• Korostelev, who was accustomed to working with a crew on his video stories, had learned to cobble together recorded phone calls and a lot of narrative voice-over.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023

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cobble

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• Look for a smooth, oval-shaped stone with fine pores, such as the quartzite or dark basalt cobbles found along most riverbeds.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
• The last section of cobbles is only three miles from the finish.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 6 July 2018
• The site’s capuchins use quartzite cobbles as hammerstones, and tree limbs and loose stones as anvils.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• The skill is riding a 1938 Ariel Red Hunter at speed on a road of treacherous cobbles that could shift and spill you at any time.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• The white quartz stones that make up the outer wall were brought here from Wicklow (71 miles south) and the granite cobbles from Rathcor (40 miles north).
  — Jane Smiley, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• This area has recently been shored up with cobble designed to absorb the impact of the waves hitting the bank.
  — Abby Spegman, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• Georgetown is a good place to glimpse such palimpsests, which include the cobbles and streetcar tracks on O and P streets.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
• The shoreline has gone from rough cobbles that looked like a lunar landscape to a fine sand that rivals any beach in the Northwest.
  — National Geographic, 2 June 2016
• Our final evening of camping was on cobbles underneath the Mile 10 sign of the pipeline.
  — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
• Along the glistening cobbles of the bank, a black ouzel bobbed and flew rock to rock, staying just ahead of me, keeping me company.
  — Peter Heller, Outdoor Life, 17 Feb. 2020
• The cobbles are followed by a rest day on July 16, and Froome had better make the most of it because the Alps start brutally the day after.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• Scattered around the site were flakes that seem to have been chipped off the cobbles, as though someone had struck the rocks against another solid object.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The area is flat, sandy and more delicate, interspersed with smaller plants and cobbles.
  — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2018
• The cobbles that served as hammerstones and anvils, then, could not have entered the layer by natural means.
  — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2017
• The 23-year-old Veranda's Willems-Crelan rider fell on the second set of cobbles in the one-day classic in northern France.
  — Jim Vertuno, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
• Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark is tall enough to hide a regiment of street fighters and a squadron of women with rocks in their aprons.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Liam Fitzpatrick owns a shoe repair shop in south Chicago, thinks of himself as a leprechaun, plays the flute, cobbles shoes, and even sports a green jacket and red beard.
  — The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2023
• These spreads of cobbles, the archaeologists say, may be the remains of stone-and-soil ramps the Rapanui once used to roll giant stone hats to the tops of their iconic statues.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
• Gilets with sweat on their brows diligently dug up cobbles or chipped fresh stone projectiles from the facades of buildings.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Hauling out some 7,000 cubic yards of debris — work that is still ongoing — is allowing a soft, sandy beach to grow where there was bare cobble and rock.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2018
• The Roubaix cobbles may perhaps trouble Froome, although Prudhomme thinks the British rider can handle anything.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• The attacker fell to the cobbles just yards from the entrance to 1,000-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliamentary complex, busy with visitors and school groups.
  — Danica Kirka, The Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2017
• The jagged edges of the cobbles inject the likelihood of regular punctures and mechanical failures.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• The ambitious couple sat front-row at fashion shows, chopped it up with Dapper Dan and Asap Rocky, and hit the historical cobble-stone streets for their usual photo opps.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 27 Sep. 2019
• But early investigators found the hilly ridges to be composed of clay, silt, sand, pebbles, cobbles and boulders, all jumbled up together.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Using hundreds of images from the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument, mosaics revealed coarse sediment grains and cobbles.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 13 May 2023
• These blocks can be made of granite Belgian block cobbles or a prefabricated concrete aggregate block.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 19 Apr. 2019
• The freelance working actor cobbles together an annual income that is usually in the range of the median for Los Angeles.
  — Annabelle Gurwitch, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• Patreons of the arts Phillip Cotter, like most local working musicians, cobbles together various revenue streams to make a living.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• While assembling a cobble of security products together as needs emerged may have fit the purpose and budget at the time, the vulnerabilities and escalating complexity for security teams can become overwhelming.
  — David Schiffer, Forbes, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024