deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk
Recent Examples on the WebIn temperatures exceeding 800 Celsius (1,472 Fahrenheit), gobbets of fluid metal splashed and contaminated the church’s stonework throughout. Feargus O'sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019 Afterlife with Archie cheerfully drops bloody gobbets of doom on the carefree world of Riverdale. Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018 But of real emotional value, this season has great gobbets. Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018 The name of the sender was blacked out, but the content of the email took the committee’s entire threadbare claim to any legitimacy at all and fed bloody gobbets of that claim to the wolverines. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017