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Synonyms for blob
Synonyms: Noun
chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop, glob, gob, gobbet, hunk, knob, lump, nub, nubble, nugget, wad
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That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for. flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it aroundRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Radars can detect an object and note it's altitude, bearing, and distance, but otherwise the target is a big, featureless blob. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "How Quantum Radar Could Completely Change Warfare," 26 Aug. 2019 Jonas, armed with his flashlight that looks like a kettlebell and his radiation detector, makes his way to the power plant, and sees a large, unwieldy blob, that appears to be descending on him. — Abbey Maxbauer, refinery29.com, "R29 Binge Club: Netflix's Dark Season 2 Recap," 25 June 2019 That's a huge floating blob of plastic trash halfway between California and Hawaii drawn together by ocean currents to create a gyre. — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, "Turns out there's more plastic pollution in the deep ocean than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," 6 June 2019 Forecasting future murder blobs Like other flavors of magma, Borgarhraun’s molten rock also contained dissolved carbon dioxide. — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, "Magma speed record set by Icelandic volcano," 23 July 2019 The felt tip glides smoothly and doesn't skip or drag—or the worst, bleed, leaving you with a big black ink blob on your eyes. — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, "5 Women Try Amazon's Best-selling Eyeliner," 12 July 2019 In the video, North is one of the first girls to excitedly come out of the limo, wearing a set of silk pink pajamas and matching blob fish slippers. — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, "Kourtney Kardashian's Daughter Penelope Celebrates 7th Birthday with a Girls-Only PJ Party at IHop," 8 July 2019 But otherwise the bad boy, played by Dacre Montgomery, spent the majority of Stranger Things season 3 possessed by the Mind Flayer and basically turning a good portion of Hawkins into zombie blob people. — Tim Stack, EW.com, "Dacre Montgomery discusses Billy's evolution in Stranger Things 3," 8 July 2019 The massive blob was discovered by researchers using data from NASA’s 2011 Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission and mapping information from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Astronomers Make Massive Discovery on the Far Side of the Moon," 12 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Although seaweed is normal, seaweed blobs this thick are not. — Jacob Sweet, miamiherald, "Lots of sun, and brown slimy seaweed, in the forecast for South Florida beaches," 3 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'blob.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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