How to Use blubber in a Sentence

blubber

1 of 2 verb

• Oh, stop blubbering, you big baby!
• Their white American maleness is too mythic and valuable to go around blubbering all over valets.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Burning: Songs like Burning are the reason why casual listeners turn to Sam Smith’s music, looking for three-minute exercises in emotional manipulation that renders you a blubbering mess.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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, VanityFair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
• Oh, stop blubbering, you big baby!
• Their white American maleness is too mythic and valuable to go around blubbering all over valets.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Burning: Songs like Burning are the reason why casual listeners turn to Sam Smith’s music, looking for three-minute exercises in emotional manipulation that renders you a blubbering mess.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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, VanityFair.com, 25 Jan. 2017

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blubber

2 of 2 noun

• The duo hiked the headland with a small group in 1806, in search of whale blubber.
  — OregonLive.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Once the kill had been made, the groups divided up hunks of flesh and blubber from the slain blue whale to bring back to the rest of the group.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Small-scale whaling on Long Island dates to the 1640s; the blubber of the right whale was used for lamp oil and to make soap and margarine.
  — Richard Schiffman, New York Times, 7 July 2016
• The intestines, lungs and meat are distributed to people along with the skin and blubber.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
• But many of those found in Wales had only thin layers of blubber over their ribs.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2019
• Long before the evolution of blowholes or blubber, whales were at home in the seas.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Whales and seals developed blubber for warmth over tens of millions of years.
  — National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Because of their blubber and tusks, they were often poached and hunted for fuel and trade.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The men were stuck on this vessel for 10 months, surviving off penguin meat and seal blubber.
  — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• The stove appeared to be a trywork, a type of cast iron furnace used in rendering whale blubber to oil, the researchers said.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022
• But both have a thick layer of blubber allowing them to swim in frigid waters.
  — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2019
• Their quarry: baleen whales and the oil from their blubber, worth millions in today’s dollars.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• The onlookers were covered in a downpour of whale blubber.
  — Fox News, 8 Apr. 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
• 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 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
• Rather 18th and 19th century whalers scoured the oceans for the massive beasts, who were valued for their meat and blubber, and noted each kill in ship logbooks.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Elephant seals were hunted relentlessly for their oil and blubber and were thought to be extinct by the late 1800s.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• Sea lions are able to swim in freezing temperatures thanks to three things: blubber, fur, and oil.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2020
• Those adaptations go beyond thick layers of blubber for insulation and up into the pinniped’s nose.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023
• Before fossil fuels came into widespread use in the late nineteenth century, whales were slaughtered for their blubber—the primary fuel used in oil lamps across Europe and North America.
  — Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024