How To Use gobbet In A Sentence
- Other Chinamen pulled them from the vat and thrust them under a thing like a chaff-cutter, which, descending, hewed them into unseemly red gobbets fit for the can. American Notes
- His history, whilst highly selective with dubious conclusions, includes some fascinating gobbets.
- This has the advantage of presenting the texts in rather large chunks rather than the gobbets with which Walter et al. seek to satisfy us.
- As you can imagine, gentle readers, it wasn't just me who wanted more, but the troubled former starlet refused to address our questions as she rained down gobbets of her own flesh with an increasingly unsteady hand.
- So I stretched my arm out the open window, flicked the gobbet of lotion onto his windshield, and floored it.
- They spoke of a salmon or a gurnard as chined, a sole as loined, a haddock as sided, an eel as trousoned, a pike as splatted, and a trout as gobbeted. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
- The stodgy strands were long and thick and twisted, spotted with mobile gobbets of ketchup.
- He reasoned that standing naked over a hit stove forces you to cook the bacon slowly, over a low heat, so that it doesn't spit and spatter all over the place, speckling your delicate milky flesh with gobbets of hot grease.
- For Richardson, the self-made former apprentice boy, who later gave Clarissa the appearance of literariness by inserting gobbets from a dictionary of literary ‘beauties’, the charge was altogether more significant.
- Pinsky warns that poets might ‘strangle their work on gobbets of poetic diction’.