Sentence examples for goop from inspiring English sources

The word "goop" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a messy substance or a semi-solid material. For example, "I spilled some goop on the floor and now I need to clean it up."

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goop

noun

A thick, slimy substance; goo.

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That effort came to be seen as greenwash as punters realised that the company's dabbling in greenery did not take away its zeal to produce and alas, it turned out, recklessly spill gargantuan quantities of the mucky black goop that has always been the main source of its profits.Not long after that, Suntech, a Chinese solar-panel manufacturer, skyrocketed to the top of the world solar industry.

This, in turn, passes them wirelessly to a user's mobile phone for processing and display.Textile electrodes are almost undetectable to the touch and do not need any sticky goop to make them work when next to the skin (although sweat does improve signal quality).

The goop used for printing can be a thermoplastic such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polylactic acid or polycarbonate, or metallic powders, clays and even living cells depending on the application (see "Making it", November 25th 2011).

The toy soldier, wriggling on a mesh sieve that spa attendants use to sift through the — choice euphemism — "goop," his gun still propped on his shoulder, was as ready for battle as the day he was swallowed, found at long last.

What happened is that the great gluey goop that is Google shifted in some small way, and a writer and reporter who was helping me out, Michelle Dean, happened to re-Google the phrase the month before my book was to be published.

He also blurted his goop into her palm at the same instant that she groped the knob and discovered its stretchy hood.

We obviously have a long way to go, starting with what to call it; its current names — lab meat, in-vitro meat, test-tube meat, petri meat — conjure images ranging from chemical goop to Ph.D. students' uncouth slang for the hottest undergrads.

Turner was tormented by asthmatic wheezes and joint pains, for which he took the narcotic herb thorn apple (consumed daily through the goop that accumulated in the bowl of his pipe).

Napkin in hand, I bend over the sink suck the sweet orange goop that's how I like it gripping a little twig those painted persimmons sure cure hunger.

The goal behind the recipe was efficiency: to rely on "one goop you could eat or drink that would have everything you need nutritionally for your brain and body".

She laid the print on a table and after ninety seconds peeled back the protective layer to reveal a stately black-and-white image edged in a chemical sludge they call "goop".

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