How to Use glom in a Sentence

glom

verb
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Synonyms for glomnext
  • The three, all GOP targets this fall, have glommed on to the issue with gusto.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • There were the summers on tour, sure, seeing the world and glomming on to the rock-star lifestyle.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Minute droplets of fog condense in the tiny holes of the mesh, which glom together into drops large enough to drip down the fibers.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Hardy enough to persist for several days outside the pig body, the virus clung to clothes and glommed onto the soles of shoes.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Though oenophiles glommed on to that news, those benefits are now also up for grabs.
    — Alex Van Buren, Health.com, 2 July 2018
  • Those looking for something more to worry about found any number of wild claims to glom on to.
    — ELLE, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Tiny bits and pieces may glom onto bigger bits and pieces, forming tar balls.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • And all of this is somehow glommed on to the lachrymose story of a grieving parent and a dying world.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • And Trump was very well received because he's glommed onto the issue as well.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Those two bindings allow an enzyme called RNA polymerase to glom onto the gene and make a copy of it.
    — Alla Katsnelson and Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
  • The role of these antibodies is to glom onto the virus and prevent it from infecting cells.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The host molecules that viruses glom on to, which are called receptors, tend to be highly variable from one species to the next, Sawyer says.
    — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The best way to prevent things from glomming up is to be hyper-vigilant while cooking.
    — Jesse Sparks, Bon Appétit, 30 Oct. 2019
  • And before that seed has time to blossom, there are people who glom on and extrapolate way too far.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2018
  • But there’s a long tradition of spoofing laughably bad writing, and so why not glom onto it?
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • I had been advised to get an injection of a drug to help strengthen my bones which the cancer had glommed onto, in order to reduce the risk of fracture.
    — Scott Monserud, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
  • This allowed the researchers to discern whether the fine mud particles would glom together.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2021
  • They were developed to glom onto the early 2020 form of the virus, and prevent it from penetrating into a cell.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Other, also-ran fast-food chicken-sammie sellers tried to glom on.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Of course, the 1619 Project wanted to glom on to the Smithsonian’s credibility.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
  • During these events, neutrons glom onto heavy nuclei to build even heavier nuclei, some of which then blast out into the wider cosmos.
    — Marcus Woo, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The reinforcements glom together into a clot that staunches the flow.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Pro-Trump groups have glommed onto the baseless allegations.
    — TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Too often, meme creators are left in the lurch while corporations glom onto their work and use it to sell products without giving the creator a cut.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 12 July 2019
  • On teeth, on pipes, on rocks and in the ocean, microbes glom together by the billions and build sticky organic superstructures around themselves.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The measure glommed all 12 of the annual spending bills into a solitary piece of legislation.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Over time, a coalition of 14 other states and the District of Columbia have glommed onto California’s rules.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2023
  • In experiments, the device was able to glom on to objects in the lab and even floating items within the International Space Station.
    — Charles Q. Choi Space.com Contributor, Fox News, 29 June 2017
  • Clearly, then, for actual rain to fall, a million teeny droplets have to glom together into a larger unit.
    — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
  • What Cavallarin realized, and what hackers have since glommed on to, is that Gatekeeper doesn’t treat all files equally.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 26 June 2019

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