Example Sentences

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You can heat it low and slow or take it to a soft gloopy boil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

But the starting point is very different: a brown, gloopy, fat mixture, recently fished out from below ground - fatbergs.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

The less gloopy visuals and plot liberally steal from “The Matrix,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Star Wars” - Martin Short voices a Jabba the Hutt monster fish - “Jumanji,” “Spider-Man” and “Fast & Furious.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2023

I added the eggs too quickly and spooned gloopy mounds of pale gold batter onto baking sheets.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022

Aunt Kitty had applied the red stage makeup in a gloopy pile on the side and back of my head, and it looked unpleasantly real.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan