Sentence examples for glom from inspiring English sources

These glom onto the receptors and reduce their attraction to other substances.

If you put sulphur dioxide into air that already has a haze of particles in it, the gas will glom onto those particles, making them bigger, rather than forming new small particles of its own.

And some glom onto other proteins, called transcription factors, that themselves would otherwise trigger the copying of genes.

So they would glom onto the far away drama of the Jewish national home and turn its fate into a kind of obsession.

He's able to glom on to something someone said and repeat it as if it were his own thought.

"And if it picks up any warm body, meaning someone who could give you nurture and direction and support, you glom".

Who knows what a young reader will glom onto and why; a growing mind is populated arbitrarily.

The saga of the transgressions of Anthony D. Weiner — former youngest-ever member of the City Council, former seven-term congressman from Brooklyn and Queens, preening self-promoter who never met a camera (television or smartphone) he didn't glom on to, former and, at this writing, current candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York — is remarkable for many reasons.

Well, here we enter into territory of speculation, some of it misty, about the nature of illusion that the postmodern mind seems to glom onto — a territory that I, at least, have written about a couple of times before.

Sundance starts next week, and it's a make-or-break moment for glom-on marketing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage my very dear friend, Glom Gazingo," she said.