goop
Example Sentences
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Two problems: At the time, renewable energy cost too much to make it affordable, and adding water usually turns quicklime into an unwieldy goop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Duck à l’orange has a reputation as an archaic 1970s atrocity owing to American cooks bastardizing what should be a glistening garnish into a sickly-sweet goop.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
And in that goop is where our show lives.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Grease a 12-cup muffin pan with cake goop or baking spray.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024
He gave Doon a tool belt, too, in which were wrenches and hammers, spools of wire and tape, and tubes of some sort of black goop.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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