How to Use blab in a Sentence

blab

verb
  • He kept blabbing on and on about politics.
  • Don't tell Mary. She'll blab it all over town.
  • In the book, the tight-lipped twosome are suddenly blabbing their heads off.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • The chat can go on for as long as the chattiest participant wants to blab on.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Alexa is all too happy to blab all the details about what’s in those packages to anyone in the house who asks.
    — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • More to the point, what kind of guy would blab to the world on TV about the level of his losses?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • And most importantly, who gets to blab the acceptance speech?
    — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • But Cirie ended up telling her husband, and her husband blabbed to Trish.
    — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Working two jobs and trying to raise three children, there were moments Natasha wanted to blab but didn't.
    — CBS News, 30 June 2017
  • The orator had to fight the urge to blab for too long, bore the crowd or expound on a Great Life Lesson.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Just fodder for fools to blab on about leadership and intangibles and other nonsense.
    — Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Props to the baller’s dad Ed Kelce who blabbed a few details to a local Cleveland, Ohio, station.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Scouts talk to agents who talk to other agents who try to get information from scouts and executives and reporters and then blab to other reporters.
    — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Rome’s nonstop blabbing about the dos and don’ts of fishing have gotten most of the tribe wound up, though ignoring him and talking smack behind his back seem to be a salve.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Two teens who have been hanging around the hostage situation overhear the news and immediately blab about the update on the Smithereen app.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 31 May 2019
  • Then Graham blabbed some more crap about his block-grant bill because the federal government is Satan’s playground or something like that.
    — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Scaramucci has kept on blabbing since leaving the administration.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • His climactic loop in a helicopter after blabbing about it for the first part of the movie is the equivalent of an old drunk at the bar reenacting his game-winning high school touchdown.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Just remember to take advice from real experts -- not from someone blabbing on Instagram or Facebook or tweeting junk to us.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Torres helped strengthen the state’s case against him by talking about his role in the killing of Benitez to his cell mate, who notified authorities the wore a wire and got Torres to blab again.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Guests have blabbed that things were definitely awkward during one of the newlyweds’ first dances to an undisclosed song by the celebrity performer, Marc Anthony.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Because the Middleton clan has worked hard to keep a lid on blabbing and leaks, not much is known officially about the wedding, leaving the British media to speculate with cheeky abandon.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017
  • Over-interest in a colleague’s travel details aside, Renee shouldn’t have been blabbing about someone else’s vacation to an indiscriminate group of co-workers in the first place.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • And the media operates on much the same basis, recruiting party officials eager to blab about the latest news-cycle talking points at the expense of covering larger economic trends and policies.
    — Ken Stern, The Hive, 19 July 2017
  • When a friend shares a fear, her friend must not laugh; when a friend tells a secret, her friend must not blab; when a friend eats her own feces immediately after defecating, her friend must not talk about it on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
    — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 13 Apr. 2018
  • When her son, Julien, blabbed about Debbie’s crazy, on-screen breakup with her new beau, the Georgia native admitted to holding some indignity over the 43-year age gap relationship.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • As far as the revelation that the president blabbed state secrets to the Russians, that appears to have been the result of the memo circulated across the administration after the meeting, as would normally be the case.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 26 May 2017
  • Rather, Sophi refrained from immediately blabbing about her advantage to Savannah and Rizo, keeping the discovery all to herself.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Take the supposition, first reported in The Post, that the president blabbed top-secret information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
    — Barton Swaim, Twin Cities, 25 May 2017
  • End of carousel With your permission to blab your money secrets, the company earns extra income from showing you advertisements for the next three years for things like credit cards and mortgage offers targeted to your financial situation.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024

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