Goofballs is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Goofballs meaning
plural of goofball
Using Goofballs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of goofball
- In the example corpus, goofballs often appears in combinations such as: of goofballs.
Context around Goofballs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goofballs
- In this selection, "goofballs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rendered, provides, trying and linda stand out and add context to how "goofballs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include clumsily rendered goofballs and gaggle of goofballs provides laughs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goofballs" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goofballs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They’re very serious about their music, but they’re goofballs! (11 words)
In a world of goofballs, Linda (Kyra Sedgwick) and Steve (Campbell Scott) seem like adults. (15 words)
Led by “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “The Office” alum Ellie Kemper, the gaggle of goofballs provides laughs of all kinds as well as some heartfelt moments. (26 words)
The tangible strength of Davis also lends a different type of energy to Deloris’ scenes, where it’s no longer the goofballs trying their best but a woman who refuses to let anyone decide the narrative of her son’s life. (41 words)
Critic Jerry Saltz was perhaps the first to articulate a dichotomy in figurative painting between the cool, clean portraiture of Alex Katz and Alice Neel’s clumsily rendered goofballs. (29 words)
Led by “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “The Office” alum Ellie Kemper, the gaggle of goofballs provides laughs of all kinds as well as some heartfelt moments. (26 words)
They’re very serious about their music, but they’re goofballs! (11 words)
Example sentences (5)
Led by “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “The Office” alum Ellie Kemper, the gaggle of goofballs provides laughs of all kinds as well as some heartfelt moments.
The tangible strength of Davis also lends a different type of energy to Deloris’ scenes, where it’s no longer the goofballs trying their best but a woman who refuses to let anyone decide the narrative of her son’s life.
Critic Jerry Saltz was perhaps the first to articulate a dichotomy in figurative painting between the cool, clean portraiture of Alex Katz and Alice Neel’s clumsily rendered goofballs.
In a world of goofballs, Linda (Kyra Sedgwick) and Steve (Campbell Scott) seem like adults.
They’re very serious about their music, but they’re goofballs!
Common combinations with goofballs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of goofballs 2×