goblin

Example Sentences

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Anyone who’s ever felt like an oddball or unappreciated genius will identify with the misfit Mitchells and their pet Monchi, who appears to be more goblin than dog.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

It is the fourth consecutive year that the public have played a part in picking Oxford's word of the year, after an inaugural public vote in 2022 saw "goblin mode" prevail.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

The spell is only broken when the night ends, not with an out-of-control orc or goblin but with something far more mundane: a bill.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

Some students were saved from debauchery when school officials colored in a pair of pants on the goblin.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Our scholar-diplomat, Magister Brangwain Spurge, code name: “The Weed,” has at this point been in the goblin capital of Tenebrion for eighteen hours.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin