How To Use Gobs In A Sentence

Have you then seen the same old coffin dodger like ten years later and been utterly gobsmacked to see them still alive and kicking?
There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
This year's induction festivities in Cooperstown delivered a much-needed boost to the local economy, as large groups of Cubs and Red Sox fans spent gobs of money along the village's Main Street.
And "gobs" -- do I detect some kind of Texas connection? An Angeleno’s Ultimate Literary Workout: LAT Festival of Books Part II
‘We were gobsmacked by the success of the film, we couldn't believe it,’ Borland says.

I am still constantly gobsmacked we are still together after what we have been through. The Sun
My voice is like sandpaper, I cough up gobs of phlegm, my liver feels like a sandbag.
Gobs of spittle ran down his chin.
He was just glowing afterwards, he was gobsmacked.
All at once it began to rain, drops large as gobs of spit.
Constitutional Court judges were "gobsmacked" when they learnt that ANC Daily News Briefing
I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
They had forced down her throat the gobs of chalky calomel mixed with laudanum prescribed by the head-shaking doctor until her gums bled.
I have a recipe for traditional whoopie pies (or "gobs" depending on which part of the country you're from). Autumn Baking: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
But I as the seventh child of a small tradesman at Noyon, I had not a sou to my name, nor personal knowledge of any capitalist but Daddy Gobseck. Gobseck
I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
I'm pretty gobsmacked that it's being considered.
So Lip is no longer "a bit of a gobshite", he's "smart as a whip" (I think the Lip/lippy thing may have been lost in translation); he doesn't get "noshed" by Karen under her kitchen table, he gets a "hummer" (I think – is that after the big car?) TV review: Shameless US; Planet of the Apemen
Note to Nestlé, a sweet cannot be called a gobstopper if after only two minutes in the mouth a chalky, chewable centre is revealed; it’s all about the hardness, the layers, the changing colours and flavours. Archive 2005-09-01
On the one hand the child Karl (Carlo came later) recounts a world of Barret's Sherbet Fountains, Black Jacks and gobstoppers, a child's world of powerful sensations and distinctive smells.
Top End Tourism spokeswoman Sylvia Wolf was "gobsmacked" at the outcome. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
His first object was to try to embarrass the wreckers into keeping their gobs shut.
I see no trouble with saying that God has used gobs of secondary causes in creating and slowly developing life and, ultimately, the human person over the ages.
Should I consult with a chic stylist and pay gobs of money to plot a hair strategy for the big day?
But oh no, idle bitching from the other gobshites ruined it for her. Daisy De La Hoya to Star in Daisy of Love VH1 Rock of Love Spinoff
It doesn't turn anthropology or the story of human evolution on its head, a piece of science-correspondent gabble I think I heard during my goggle-eyed, gobsmacked, yelping look at yesterday evening's TV news.
I used to love the penny tray which was full of gobstoppers, bubblies, Spangles and Jelly Tots.
Great huge gobs of white stuff -- they're predicting 10 inches, which, of course, to a Minnesotan is chicken feed. Day in the Life of an Idiot
Some gobshite off his face on coke, and too thick to read the papers, sees some fella cutting up rough with his girlfriend and calls in the guards. The Priest
But university chums are gobsmacked at his claim. The Sun
Fielding at short mid wicket he took off, flung himself full length to his left and caught the ball in his outstretched left hand leaving Young gobsmacked.
Gobshite is a word I haven’t heard for many years, as is boak. 08 « August « 2008 « I Can’t Stop Reading!
Some sweets are equipped with surprising visual and flavour effects: gobstoppers change colour when sucked, sherbet fizzes in the mouth, and bubble gum is as much about bubbles as sweetness.
It also produces gobs of resin that will make a mess when you lay the fire. Times, Sunday Times
I was gobsmacked because you just think it's going to take a long time with somebody older. The Sun
I was just gobsmacked by this. The Sun
Both load up their arguments with gobs of personal invective, which also makes me suspicious of their arguments.
‘I think children and parents are going to be gobsmacked when they look around,’ he said, speaking ahead of yesterday's open day.
By the time Chi's perky pop-reggae descends into an alarming grindie rock-out, you'll hate yourself for having liked it, but as she helpfully points out, "You should watch your lip/ Giving too much gyp/ You need a gobstopper baby". This week's new singles
I was absolutely gobsmacked by that one. Times, Sunday Times
The lower we clambered, the lower my jaw dropped; the vast ridgetop stronghold is truly gobsmacking. Times, Sunday Times
If some gobshite is acting the arsehole, go and get security! Filmstalker: Cinema staff receive detective training
Everyone who sees it is gobsmacked. Times, Sunday Times
The European Union has invested "gobs" of money in research but Canada lags behind, he says, even though these devices can keep people in their own homes longer and delay the move into costly assisted-living facilities. Canada.com Top Stories
I would really love to hear some topical radio shows about Parnell and Robert Emmet and people like that rather than the gombeen gobshites we have to hear about every day these days. The Tae man | clusterflock
When she's not filming thirty-second commercials of her popping wads of cheese-filled pizza crust into small boys' mouths for gobs of cash, she's making her own line of shoes for loads of loot.
And not just underspending, but underspending by the gobsmackingly neglectful sum of 374 million. Times, Sunday Times
I think people finally voted them into power in 1994 just to make them shut their mewling gobs as much as anything.
Greg Oden is the kind of 7-foot, shot-swatting center that franchises build around and ultimately win gobs of championship rings. Durant or Oden? No easy choice
What's more, while the millennials consume gobs of digital fare, they also master tech tools to evade marketers and to customize their own programming.
So, if, whilst padding round in your hushpuppies on a tycoon's superyacht off the coast of, say, Montenegro, and a Russian Oligarch slips you a large brown envelope with US$ 500,000 to change the tariffs on, say, gobstopper imports, that is nobody's business but your own. Mendacious Mandy: Take Everything With A Pinch Of Salt
I always liked the British slang "gobsmacked" -- it sounds a little violent, but sometimes you do just feel smacked by whatever's happening around you, you know? Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Stunned
Even my jaded self was pretty gobsmacked to click on a link to an actual food writer's post on whether "frizzled" is actually a word. Gastropoda
And secondly, democracy gives every "gobshite" with a grass roots support political and representative legitimacy. Army Rumour Service
The dogs barked and strained at the end of their chains, wide brown collars cutting into jugulars, eyes, savage and bloodshot, bulging like gobstoppers.
Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper.
But university chums are gobsmacked at his claim. The Sun
Selling gobstoppers and sherbert dippers is a tough way to make a living. Times, Sunday Times
He had stayed there 30 years before as a student and was gobsmacked to see that not a stick of furniture had been renewed. Times, Sunday Times
I watched, gobsmacked, as he was blindfolded and went on to identify random objects from the crowd by passing his hands over them but not touching them.
They are the boring, pointless, uninteresting gobs of wasted film dedicated to showcasing whatever idiotic local events took place that day.
A man whose car was towed says he was gobsmacked when the towie said in court that he paid the rail company a $120 commission per tow.
I quietly opened the door and was gobsmacked to see my brother on top of my stepmum. The Sun
So Lip is no longer "a bit of a gobshite", he's "smart as a whip" (I think the Lip/lippy thing may have been lost in translation); he doesn't get "noshed" by Karen under her kitchen table, he gets a "hummer" (I think – is that after the big car?) TV review: Shameless US; Planet of the Apemen
The few times I did walk away, she would be utterly gobsmacked by my actions.
The sauce from Mr Bishop's tomato ketchup bottles had been emptied out in great red gobs or smeared over the cupboards.
I was gobsmacked to read what a supposedly "artisan" apiarist is recommending people use on the bees in their care. Bee-wise or Greed-driven
According to the affidavits, Mrs. Farren told the police that her husband pulled out "gobs" of her hair, threw her to the floor and hit her repeatedly with a metal flashlight, until she passed out. NYT > Home Page
Gobseck is a banker, just as the headsman is a doctor. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Oh! I did not do it by halves; I titivated myself up a bit, and went out and sold my spoons and forks and buckles for six hundred francs; then I went to old Daddy Gobseck, and sold a years interest in my annuity for four hundred francs down. Paras. 1500–1599
We were all absolutely gobsmacked. Times, Sunday Times
I'd never been so utterly gobsmacked by the beauty of a place.
Gob is variously explained as a derivative from the Chinese (?) word gobshite, and as the old word gob, signifying a large, irregular mass, applied to a new use. Chapter 11. American Slang. 2. War Slang
I now have images of Willy Wonka walking out of the factory and screaming, “And your next gobstopper is FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” The Brass Ticket
If you want gobs of great plastic pieces and a fabulous fun time, these can't miss, while still offering some strategic decisions.
Sure, they'd secure gobs of camera time and send countless harmful messages about the lesbian and gay community in the process.
I felt angry and tricked and was totally gobsmacked.
He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin.
Afterwards one of them, a lisping seven-year-old by the name of Jimmy Poole, sidles up to him in his office and offers him a half-sucked gobstopper dug up from a fluff-filled corner of his pocket.
It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
Page fumed: 'Everybody was gobsmacked to see him point to the spot. The Sun
It left the much-travelled 30-year-old totally gobsmacked. The Sun
Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City.
I was gobsmacked to hear that suburbia has the same fuel load KG of burnable / square meter as open eucalypt forest, but the real “Faark me” moment was when the dude spoke of fighting the fire front in suburbia - access is better than in a forest, but when you run out of fire trucks & crews, access aint gonna help. Cheeseburger Gothic » All Hail Tarl, the King of New York.
Sample sentence 'I was gobsmacked and had to sit down because these were the days when 85,000 was a lot of money. Times, Sunday Times
It needed gobs of honey or molasses along with a big wad of butter to create the illusion of good eating.
Now, in theory at least, children could buy unlimited quantities of Spangles, gobstoppers and sweet cigarettes.
Selby flood victims said today they were "gobsmacked" after homes they thought might be unsellable were "selling like hot cakes."
There are times when you run out of words to describe the actions of local politicians - you are sometimes left gobsmacked by the sheer audacity of their decisions.
It also makes for a deeply satisfying rush at times, particularly when their sludgy rock pulse is accelerated into viscous gobs of noise or howls of feedback.
We visited once, in the 1980s, and I remember being fairly gobsmacked that my mater grew up in such a place.
And what many people experienced in 2000, 2001 and 2002 was the pain of losing money instead of making gobs of cash as they had in the late 1990s.
How we ever scraped the money together to buy gobstoppers and comics after all this outlay of our precious resources was down to odd jobs and paper rounds.
I was gobsmacked but she just asked me if I liked the view. The Sun
I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
Everyone knows that you can twiddle and twiddle the handle, but unless you put a 20p coin in, you will not get a gobstopper.
He denied it was intentional, saying he was "gobsmacked" by the charge, but a FIFA disciplinary committee on Saturday found him guilty of violent conduct. USATODAY.com - FIFA punishment: Two-game ban for Rooney, Argentina loses two players
I transferred the ice cream to another container, I spooned gobs of ice cream off the dasher down my throat until it went past numb and into sharp ache. Archive 2009-04-01
War veterans who haven't spoken a word about their soldiering in sixty years start relaying anecdotes about the nineteen-year-old versions of themselves that leave one gobsmacked. Kevin Patterson - An interview with author
We won't lie low, heads down, gobs shut for Labour.
At the time I was gobsmacked at his sheer lack of worldliness.
‘It was a real bargain,’ said the gobsmacked health service worker, who doesn't even like football.
To say I was gobsmacked is something of an understatement. My Son In Books « Tales from the Reading Room
It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers.
Then, they may be safe, but a Senate aide notes: "Don't try to bite directly into any whole jawbreaker, gobstopper, jolly rancher, or for that matter, atomic fireball, before you soften it up, as it can damage your teeth. Atomic Fireball threat contained on the Hill
Anyway, I was kind of gobsmacked by his talent and I was talking to my mum about it later this afternoon. Sheepdip Diary Entry
But the supercomputers needed to produce those informative and often colorful displays, Bethel said, also have complicated the task by generating "gobs" of data that can create bottlenecks in researchers 'analytical programs. HappyNews - Top Stories
Hopefully there will be none because everyone else will be gobsmacked at your arrogance.
I’m gobsmacked that a smack in the gob is considered acceptable corporal punishment by about three in five Japanese! Japanese schools deteriorating due mainly to bullying and bad teachers
I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering ‘significant casualties’.
It needed gobs of honey or molasses along with a big wad of butter to create the illusion of good eating.
Anyone who can use a word like "gobsmacked" deserves to go to Blogher. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming...
Stephen 'dogshit' Green faces bankruptcy Litigious christian wingnut and gobshite Stephen 'dogshit' Green of Christian Voice faces possible bankruptcy after failing to pay the costs ... Planet Atheism
Liam is working on a machine that makes Everlasting Gobstoppers, of course! '90210' recap: Drugs! Pregnancy! Issues! | EW.com
The cadences and rhymes of such poems linger, sweet and familiar as a well-sucked gobstopper, to be rolled round the mouth again and again as one grows up.
Since then we've been gobsmacked with the response.
Liam had his first gobstopper, under the close supervision of his mother. Winter Bloom
Sometimes the "gobs" of glass misfire and fall on the 1 / 8″ steel platform. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
And including the original instrumental ‘Good Day Sunshine’ might've been seen as a duplicitous trick to grab gobs of Beatles fans' money.
BONUS BOOT TO THE NADS: TPM's Josh Marshall refers to this as getting "gobsmacked": Archive 2008-10-01
Gobs of grease / spittle ran down his chin.
I worked with city council, which included some good GOBs, and we got some good things done for our city. Mary Kinnunen: A Contrast Of Small-Town Mayors: Sarah & Mary
I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
The pupils, from Lady Lumley's School, in Pickering, have all been disciplined for their part in the incident in which a gobstopper was thrown against a car windscreen.
Dishes including a pea panna cotta and tarragon gobstopper are outstanding. The Sun
Judging by the link that hyla posted, the gobs of...algae stuff...are the Krakken's tentacles. Dead Men May Tell No Tales, But Wrecked Cakes Sure Do.
For years, labels were dominated by inanimate objects, like chateaus in France, and gobs of text. Look-Alike Wines Featuring Look-Alike Marsupials Duke It Out
I was gobsmacked finding out about the medal. Times, Sunday Times
Wandering round the school, I was absolutely gobsmacked at the care that had been taken to get all the props and period details right. Times, Sunday Times
The promising new sole looks to be more durable with beefier knobs and optional screw-in studs for gobs of traction on steep hike-a-bike sections.
I don't feel sorry for a gifted quarterback with gobs of money in the bank, but you had to feel, at least a little, for him as he faced the expectations set up by his dad, Archie, and his brother, Peyton.
When we first arrived at one of the designated factories and saw wing struts being milled out of solid slabs of Aluminium on a milling machine 80 metres long, I was gobsmacked - swarf and shiny metal everywhere.
The results of exploration is enough accurate for the need of engineering design, and it can also help the engineers know the gobs in area of exploitation quantificationally.
Spouse was gobsmacked. After tea and lots of talking, I rang my Mum, singing the praises of epidurals.
Some ‘market player’ was willing to throw oodles and gobs of money at the market to prevent it from falling.
‘We are having to go through gobs of acquisition paperwork and bureaucracy to get permission for something we've already done,’ says Brewster.
One mum said: 'I was gobsmacked. The Sun
Fernandez recently threw a party for one of his daughters at the Royal Botanical Gardens, to which gobsmacked guests were ferried in limos and greeted by mock paparazzi.
If the word gobshite did not exist it would have to be invented to describe whoever wrote that standfirst. Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
As for the football boys, try and prove us all wrong - keep your gobs shut, your private parts in your trousers and drive your cars at sensible speeds - all them things that the rest of us seem to do perfectly capably.
She said: 'I was absolutely gobsmacked. The Sun
With gobs of young companies struggling to stay afloat, many are rushing headlong into hiring experienced execs who can give them the credibility and stability they need in turbulent economic times.
Whoopie pies trace their origins from both Pennsylvania, where they are sometimes called "gobs," and Maine, where thousands attend an annual whoopie pie festival. The Seattle Times
don't spend time reading much other than newspaper, book club selection of the month and GOBS and GOBS ofheavy depressing emails about the state of our world (and ofcourse aboutour fleeting democracy andour long-lost decent electoral system). so thanks for the female insights and for the normalcy! (Almost) Everything I know I Picked Up at the Pool
They have their own lexicon of heady-scented concoctions like chews and gobstoppers, Flying Saucers and Black Jacks.
Other great sections of the entity hung almost loose, huge gobs of spittle on glassy strands.
Bruisers, Astro Belts and gobstoppers all hint at the ranks of jars in proper sweet shops and the ranks of boys fighting it out in schools across the country.
Hey RaeK, get a life ya gobshite. wtf is a "gobshite"? Is Bogus Michelle Obama Rumor Based On A Work Of Fiction?
Much to my surprise - I wrote at the time I was "gobsmacked" - he had indeed left his wife whom Casey believes had no knowledge of the affair and a more confident Casey was moving to his city to be with him. The Seattle Times
I was gobsmacked to hear the Nottingham game had been cancelled, but it was all timed to perfection by SMG.
The dogs barked and strained at the end of their chains, wide brown collars cutting into jugulars, eyes, savage and bloodshot, bulging like gobstoppers.
Now, in theory at least, children could buy unlimited quantities of Spangles, gobstoppers and sweet cigarettes.
Every time I drive downtown and back I point out eyesores that could be turned into something that spans both blocks and encourages walking from business to business but no, I don't have those "gobs," either. Carolina Bank Update -- A Message From The Architect
Mrs Moore said she was "gobsmacked" to hear the company had ceased trading. BBC News - Home
Where I come from, many people have such incredible gobs of money.
Should I consult with a chic stylist and pay gobs of money to plot a hair strategy for the big day?
Both load up their arguments with gobs of personal invective, which also makes me suspicious of their arguments.
Wouldn't this be nice in gray flannel, with a choker of gobstopper-sized cloisonné beads? Fauxlero -- 80s-Style - A Dress A Day
They had recently taken some fuel out to reduce the two foot long gobs of flame exiting the exhausts on each downshift, introducing some kangaroo factor at pit exit speed.
But then that they don't have the brains of their coach to keep their gobs shut.
He admitted: 'I was gobsmacked when she claimed that hole. The Sun
I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
I'd be gobsmacked if he was involved in anything to do with match-fixing or corruption. The Sun
` wool '; gab, Gaelic for ` mouth' (and hence ` chatter ') from which we also get the word gob (in England a popular form of candy for children is "gobstoppers"), and its derivatives gobble and goblet; galore, from the Gaelic gu VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
His house-made strozzapreti with wild boar ragu has the kind of toothy textural mojo passed down by generations of nonnas; his pillowy gnocchi with rabbit confit sauce is dressed in a thin arugula pesto that had my table gobsmacked; and an Acquarello aged-rice pudding accented with crunchy puffed rice brittle makes playful but respectful use of esoteric ingredients. Chicago Reader
The scars jumped out at her, even under gobs of makeup.
He was gutted, gobsmacked, and didn't care who knew.
Additionally, people just have less free time on their hands than ever before and let's face it, boating and taking care of a boat can consume gobs of time.
That sounds too much like sense, though, so the state will spend gobs of money for an ineffectual solution that will probably require the hides of any "euthanized" snakes to be discarded. On Hunting Pythons in Florida
Steve, the centre's deputy head of operations, sounding like a man who might be gobsmacked to hear that this wasn't universal behaviour in the British working population.
Actually, despite my prolonged absence from the dentist's chair, my childhood obsession with gobstoppers and a nasty habit of opening bottles of beer with my teeth, I only had to have two fillings.
Plus, who doesn't like hawking up big gobs of phlegm?
Snappingly fresh cabbage slaw is weighted down by neither gobs of mayonnaise nor more than a gentle tinge of sweetness.
The "gobs" were the first to admit the real courage of the Korean soldiers. Korea's Fight for Freedom
I have heaps and gobs of miles which will be credited to my account soon… but not soon enough to get tickets.
A $7,000 titanium mountain bike with a smart suspension design and gobs of chichi parts is going to ride, well, flawlessly.
* Words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the past decade include: alcopop, cybersex (2001); gobshite (2002); wazzock, blog (2003); home-wrecker (2004); gastropub, emo The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
O'Leary's quips and publicity stunts include calling the prime minister of Ireland a "gobshite" and threatening to charge passengers for using the toilet, but analysts have praised Ryanair for adhering to a simple, cost-driven business model. Ryanair must move away from low fares, says O'Leary
In addition, I remember firmly F'lar et. al. finding before they went back in time, I think? in the deep hidden mysteriously dustless, because so well-sealed reaches of Benden Weyr a room with a bunch of gobsmackingly confusing stuff, including what if you read it really carefully and thought about it became clearly a diagram of the local solar system. Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs
My lifelong enthusiasm for cheap sweets stems, I fancy, from the fact that, when I was in rompers, our allowance was only about four ounces of bullseyes and gobstoppers a week.
There are still some things in life which leave me utterly gobsmacked.
I'll be absolutely gobsmacked if they don't go up. Times, Sunday Times
That did not stop us from going in for our Uncle Joe's mintballs, liquorice shoelaces and gobstoppers, but I was always glad to get out.
‘They're gobstoppers,’ she blurted out and then began to cry.

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