1
a
: a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick
b
: a daub or spot of color
2
: something shapeless
Synonyms
Examples of blob in a Sentence
Noun
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 around
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Also in 2017, the jellyfish washed up on the beach, a large gelatinous blob of a body with cloudy, white tentacles.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
To study brain changes, the Davis scientists didn’t measure the squishy three-pound blob inside each human skull.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
This four-dimensional blob had a three-dimensional boundary, just as a three-dimensional object like a ball has a two-dimensional boundary.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
The center of the Milky Way is barely noticeable to the right of center in the map, just below a small blob that resembles a sideways figure eight.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Now the crisis is over and the blob wants its monopoly back.
—Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
But as the animation also shows, a chilly phantom is rising from the depths and expanding eastward, threatening to replace the warm water: a truly enormous blob of cooler-than-average ocean waters.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
About an hour into the dive, a white-ish blob emerged in the distance.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 17 Jan. 2023
The blob-like shape is a result of spending several days in snowpack.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2015
The Pacific Ocean off South America—that big blue blob on the map—resists extreme heat because of the upwelling of cold, deep waters.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
Noun
Climate & Environment What are the blue blobs washing up on SoCal beaches?
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Also in 2017, the jellyfish washed up on the beach, a large gelatinous blob of a body with cloudy, white tentacles.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
To study brain changes, the Davis scientists didn’t measure the squishy three-pound blob inside each human skull.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
This four-dimensional blob had a three-dimensional boundary, just as a three-dimensional object like a ball has a two-dimensional boundary.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
The center of the Milky Way is barely noticeable to the right of center in the map, just below a small blob that resembles a sideways figure eight.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Now the crisis is over and the blob wants its monopoly back.
—Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
But as the animation also shows, a chilly phantom is rising from the depths and expanding eastward, threatening to replace the warm water: a truly enormous blob of cooler-than-average ocean waters.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
About an hour into the dive, a white-ish blob emerged in the distance.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
Verb
The 30-centimeter-long adult grows out of a larva that is little more than a sesame seed–size blob with an eyespot at one end and a band of cilia around its body.
—Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 17 Jan. 2023
The blob-like shape is a result of spending several days in snowpack.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2015
The Pacific Ocean off South America—that big blue blob on the map—resists extreme heat because of the upwelling of cold, deep waters.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
In his paper, Ehrlich drew a toxin as an amoeboid blob with small nubs jutting out of it, each differently shaped; the antibodies were like little tadpoles whose mouths sometimes fit exactly onto the nubs.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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“Blob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blob. Accessed 12 May. 2024.
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