How to Use gumball in a Sentence

gumball

noun
  • The short video showed daughter Dream dancing in front of a gumball machine with her name on it.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The versions might include something chunky, a ribbon of caramel, a layer of ganache on top, even a gumball at the bottom.
    — Bon Appétit, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The SpongeBob popsicle no longer has gumball eyes Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • It is finished in a rather fetching metallic blue and white paint and features a white no. 1 racing gumball on the hood and fenders.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The Bengals drafted the Hope Diamond and put him in a gumball machine for safe keeping.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Throughout the case, an attorney for the counties, Mark Lanier, used the analogy of a gumball machine.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2021
  • To make these deceptively easy gumball machine eggs, cut off the bottom of a mini red plastic cup and glue the piece onto the top of an egg.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2023
  • It’s finished in a gleaming coat of Ferrari’s trademark Rosso Corsa and has a white racing gumball adorned with the number 81.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The machine jams a little, but eventually a gumball swirls down the spiral pathway to a little metal slot by the floor.
    — Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
  • The season promises deadly new games, one of which involves a giant gumball machine.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Up your selfie game in these metro Detroit shops, complete with flower walls, giant Slinkies, gumball machines and more.
    — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2021
  • Select your Time Capsule of choice — a bottle, jean pocket, gumball machine, lunch box or teddy bear.
    — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The blue gumball machine still sits at the front entrance, across from the community bulletin board boasting dozens of business cards and fliers for local services.
    — Shannon Greene, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Culhane's office was notorious for being located in one of the coldest parts of the building, Hines said, yet was a draw for its gumball machine filled with Peanut M&M's.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • This particular example—which is finished in silver with white racing gumballs—was the first to claim victory, at the 1954 French Grand Prix.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Arrive early to eat a build-your-own pizza (choose from three base sauces and almost 40 toppings) and try your hand at a round of ping-pong (paddles are provided, and balls are 25 cents from a gumball machine).
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • No music was playing as two other barbers sat on a red modular couch in the middle of the shop, using a gumball machine as a stand for their Nintendo Switch to play Mario Kart.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Pogo sticks and gumballs and flares and fireworks and scooters and double-decker buses and cemeteries and country roads become putty in the director’s hands.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Everding, then 36, quickly retooled a former gumball machine into a joke dispenser and put it outside his home in Dortmund in the Ruhr River valley.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Absent any activity, his shop stands frozen in time: a commendation from the city and a photograph of his father on the wall, racks of shoe polish, laces and an empty gumball machine.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • As for why snowy owls tend to gather crowds more than, say, a sparrow, some credit their presence — gumball eyes and curious heads — or their personalities.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Lushly painted cupcakes and gumball machines brought back memories of his idyllic past.
    — Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
  • An emotional, high-concept, sci-fi action-comedy should hold together as well as a 150-foot-tall gumball machine in an earthquake.
    — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Beautifully soft tannins in a luscious mid palate that is balanced, harmonious and layered with all things nice—peppercorns, Dutch salty licorice, red cherries, gumballs, black berries, mushrooms and anise on the finish.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Outside on the property are a pool, a hot tub, viewing patios, a staircase to a 94-foot-wide beach, a dog run area and a new gumball breakwater wall along an adjacent north pier that helps keep the beach more stable despite fluctuating lake levels.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Stuffed inside are thousands of toys and other items featuring Kitty and her eye-catching red bow, including rows of sunglasses, a swivel chair and novelty gumball dispensers.
    — Paula Ramon, Fortune Asia, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Your kid gets to design and reconfigure their very own arcade-style pinball machine—using actual edible gumballs as the pinball!
    — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Many others — painters of Pontiacs, drugstore facades or gumball machines — were dismissed as frivolous.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • This kit allows kids to make their own customizable pinball machine that uses edible gumballs as pinballs!
    — Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
  • For instance, his famous gumball machines operate as circles within a larger, transparent circle.
    — Erika Mailman, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2020

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