goo

Example Sentences

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When the ROV returns, there is an excited dash for the samples including seawater, sediment and a forearm-length sea lily coated with dripping orange goo.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

But it’s taken years to study him and clean off his sticky goo, a naturally occurring asphalt mixture of sand, gravel, clay and crude oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The problem, though, is that the brick-coloured goo, which is dried into a powder, looks distinctly unappetising – even less appetising than the freeze-dried fare that astronauts currently have to put up with.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

In 2022 alone, protesters threw black goo on a Klimt, mashed potatoes on a Monet, and cake at the Mona Lisa.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

She’s probably ten or fifteen years younger than me, twenty- two, twenty-three, and she’s real pretty, but why’s she wearing all that goo on her face?

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett