Explore Fobbed through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Fobbed meaning
simple past and past participle of fob
Using Fobbed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of fob
- In the example corpus, fobbed often appears in combinations such as: fobbed off, being fobbed.
Context around Fobbed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fobbed
- In this selection, "fobbed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 33.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get and off stand out and add context to how "fobbed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and get fobbed off by and but she fobbed him off. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fobbed" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fobbed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The 34-year-old was diagnosed after several years of "being fobbed off" and had her son Arthur in December. (20 words)
What they don’t want us doing is presenting a united front in order to reject the pathetic excuse for government that is being fobbed off on us. (28 words)
Not one to let the problem get worse, he spoke to Becca about it, but she fobbed him off and "made fun" when he would tell her to "stop". (29 words)
At first I assumed that as this exchange took place in the Lords it might be quite common for a geriatric member waking from a snooze to ask a question with little connection to the debate and get fobbed off by what is usually a meaningless stock answer. (48 words)
The reason for the emergency meeting, Cllr Benson explained, was to discuss evictions and to receive a report regarding emergency accommodation, and she wasn’t going to be fobbed off with talk of standing orders and votes on counter-proposals. (40 words)
Through the machinations of Ira Gershwin, George’s brother and principal lyricist, he said, he had been fobbed off on Mollie’s sister and her husband, Fanny and Ben Schneider of Brownsville, Brooklyn, who had pretended he was theirs. (39 words)
Example sentences (7)
At first I assumed that as this exchange took place in the Lords it might be quite common for a geriatric member waking from a snooze to ask a question with little connection to the debate and get fobbed off by what is usually a meaningless stock answer.
The reason for the emergency meeting, Cllr Benson explained, was to discuss evictions and to receive a report regarding emergency accommodation, and she wasn’t going to be fobbed off with talk of standing orders and votes on counter-proposals.
Not one to let the problem get worse, he spoke to Becca about it, but she fobbed him off and "made fun" when he would tell her to "stop".
The 34-year-old was diagnosed after several years of "being fobbed off" and had her son Arthur in December.
What they don’t want us doing is presenting a united front in order to reject the pathetic excuse for government that is being fobbed off on us.
Concerned that he was being 'fobbed off', Jagota decided to raise the incident with Tory chairman Brandon Lewis, who he was introduced to at the party's conference in Birmingham a week later.
Through the machinations of Ira Gershwin, George’s brother and principal lyricist, he said, he had been fobbed off on Mollie’s sister and her husband, Fanny and Ben Schneider of Brownsville, Brooklyn, who had pretended he was theirs.
Common combinations with fobbed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: