How to Use blubber in a Sentence

blubber

1 of 2 verb
  • Oh, stop blubbering, you big baby!
  • And then raised the teacup to my lips to keep from blubbering.
    — Alice McDermott, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • It was still used to store whale meat and blubber for the villagers.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Their white American maleness is too mythic and valuable to go around blubbering all over valets.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Their white American maleness is too mythic and valuable to go around blubbering all over valets.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Wanting to make Lambert more than some blubbering wreck, Cartwright emphasized her common sense.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Until Beard plays them a compilation video of their time together, which has everyone blubbering and out of sorts to start the game.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • According to researchers on shore, the octopuses were likely chowing down on living crustaceans, not blubber remaining on the bones.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2019
  • As the humans blubbered and begged for their lives, the bots turned them into target practice, used their corpses to set up ambushes to create more corpses, and hanged them only after the slow torment of a monologue.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2018
  • DeeDee Magno Hall’s Diana also is capable of reducing audience members — first timers or not — to blubbering wrecks with her searching fragility and voice like warm honey.
    — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • In a single scene, Sizemore cycles a full Crime and Punishment of monstrous evil, confused conscience, and spiritual regret, before blubbering out a confession.
    — Leah Greenblatt, Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • This explains why most, so far, appear to be playing along with Trump—espousing a patriotic duty to work with the administration while blubbering platitudes about cooperation and listening and being stewards of the economy.
    — vanityfair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
  • The pearl-clutchers are stuck in the past, blubbering over things like the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War or the Waffen-SS slaughtering 84 American soldiers captured in Malmedy, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge.
    — Doug McIntyre, Oc Register, 7 Dec. 2025

blubber

2 of 2 noun
  • Most of the tail was gone and pieces of blubber were missing.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Outside, the dogs chow on seal blubber and settle down in the snow for a nap.
    — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Whales and seals developed blubber for warmth over tens of millions of years.
    — National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2023
  • But many of those found in Wales had only thin layers of blubber over their ribs.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The duo hiked the headland with a small group in 1806, in search of whale blubber.
    — OregonLive.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Long before the evolution of blowholes or blubber, whales were at home in the seas.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The intestines, lungs and meat are distributed to people along with the skin and blubber.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • Pulling his snow machine next to the large beast, the man worked its heavy, blubber-laden body onto his sled and headed home.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Whale bodies are meant to float, and once ashore, the weight of their blubber can crush their internal organs.
    — Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Humpback whales, once prized by hunters for their blubber, can weigh up to 40 tons and span 60 feet in length.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2019
  • During the hunt, sea mammals are lured into shallow water where they are killed for their meat and blubber.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
  • My guess is better men, but Limbaugh—a walking blubber suit of white male tears—wouldn’t know much about that.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 1 May 2018
  • Saxitoxin doesn't tend to go to those types of tissues, blubber, meat and muscle.
    — Author: Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Unlike elephants, slaughtered for their tusks and left to rot on the ground, whales were hunted for the oil that came from their blubber.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • And if a blubber-sampling dart wasn't bad enough, some dart gun pregnancy tests might not even be all that accurate.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The men were stuck on this vessel for 10 months, surviving off penguin meat and seal blubber.
    — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Annual migrations cause adult humpback whales to lose twelve tons of blubber.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • After a summer stuffing her maw with salmon that were hers and hers alone, Beadnose has the blubber to show for it.
    — Karin Brulliard, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The scientists, armed with foot-long knives that look like miniature pirate swords, slice through blubber, peeling the flesh off in sheets.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • Onlookers were covered in blubber and a car was smashed by flying pieces of whale meat, but much of the carcass did not go anywhere.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2019
  • Given the paucity of sincere musicals this season, this offers one of the few chances for a good blubber.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • The next course was fermented meat and blubber, or mikigaq, and large pieces of muktuk, which consists of whale skin and blubber.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
  • Yet, unlike such marine mammals as whales and seals, sea otters lack a thick layer of blubber to insulate them.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
  • For the first half of the meeting Lopez was able only to blubber inaudible words and squeal from excitement.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2019
  • The sea otters, unique among marine mammals, are more fur than blubber, so sharks typically only take a test bite and move on.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • The oil is made from the blubber of seals and sold as a nutritional supplement with a promise of containing healthy fats.
    — Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • It's known that this fatty acid accumulates in the blubber and doesn't get burned up for fuel during times of starvation.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2011
  • The hunts can happen at any time of the year and are noncommercial - meat and blubber from each drive is shared among the local community.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 30 June 2017
  • Along the edges, where real homes stored blubber and meat, there were piles of white and red pebbles, likely imaginary substitutes for the food stocks.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • Large chunks of white blubber were removed and set to the side as the team attempted to penetrate the core of the colossal mass of flesh stretched out before them.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018

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