Example sentences for: goof

How can you use “goof” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In another example, goof vb, goofball n, goof off vb, goof-off n , and goof up vb are all labeled “American,” but not goof n or goofy , the latter of which could hardly be a “back formation” from goof , and is probably reinforced (if it is universal) by the Disney character.

  • In the musical The Pajama Game , the big dance number, "Once a Year Day," has the lyrics "Everyone's entitled to be wild, be a child, be a goof, raise the roof," at which point the entire chorus raises a "two-armed palms-skyward pump."

  • In the same deceptive spirit, Fischer claims that a similar calculation would indicate that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids, or that they never goof off on the golf course--even though he makes no attempt to supply that calculation.

  • . She can goof something up and then replay the sequence until she gets it right, taking the narrative into her own hands.

  • In this case, for instance, the reader is left wondering what horrible goof is being suppressed, when actually it's just that congressman Stevens of Pennsylvania was mistakenly described as a senator from Massachusetts.


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