How to Use goo in a Sentence

goo

noun
  • What's this goo all over the stove?
  • A lot of blood and weird vampire goo!
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There was blood coming out of them, and then some yellow goo.
    — Rafael Freitas, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
  • Or been stuck in the same lackluster-hair-goo rut for too long?
    — Andrew Goble, GQ, 19 May 2018
  • There are even legions of slime-trepreneurs who sell the goo online.
    — Tamara Lush, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • First, this buy window goes well beyond a dip in the price of the goo.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The result was a messy goo left on the face of a young woman in his path.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • There’s icky goo, creepy rats, monsters and other shocks and scares.
    — oregonlive.com, 9 July 2019
  • If the gum is still soft, freeze the item to harden the goo, then scrape off any excess.
    — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Models grooved to the music as guests stood in line for crepes and sipped tea with goo in it.
    — Booth Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The fuel goo spreads around a mold that has been lowered inside.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The goo stops them from perishing, and the two embrace in a hug.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 26 Dec. 2025
  • But no one had quite figured out how the jellies’ goo worked until now.
    — Cheryl Ames, National Geographic, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The black goo biofilm can be cleaned off with minimal effort.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026
  • But then one dude starts oozing black goo from his mouth and going on a rampage.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Some stars collapsed to the sea floor, dissolved into piles of goo.
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This dissolves that goo, loosening the husks, which will shrug right off.
    — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
  • This dissolves that goo, loosening the husks, which will shrug right off.
    — James P. Dewan, Twin Cities, 4 June 2019
  • At the outset, the crawfish - smothered in the fiery goo - smell like a dream.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • It was coated in a viscous white goo, and a black shoelace had been knotted around its neck.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • That racist legacy is like some kind of sticky goo, and Blas reminds us of that truth.
    — Samantha Dunn, Orange County Register, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Available in six zesty shades, this goo can be sculpted, stretched, and snapped to your desire.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The city is covered in an orange goo and smoke suffocates all signs of life.
    — Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Beings of sentient goo that can express all kinds of gender all over the place.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Holes were bored in giant waxy wheels, slivers shaved from wedges, spoons dipped into soft pools of goo.
    — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In one, the kitten sits by a backyard swimming pool full of rainbow goo.
    — John Ruwitch, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • One of his twin 2-year-old daughter's eyes had become inflamed and leaked goo.
    — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 16 May 2017
  • Of course signature green goo will also be in abundance around the event site.
    — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Footage from the station shows the roadway covered in yellow goo.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • One of these lands on his arm and sprays a weird metallic goo into Tootles’s face.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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