How to Use blurt in a Sentence

blurt

verb

• In the past, King would blurt out all the swim sets at once.
  — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• That’s why her impulses and her death drive blurt out of her.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 July 2021
• Don’t just blurt it out one day; enlist the help of a counselor for guidance.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 1 June 2022
• Of course, Diaz didn’t blurt out that Joel is the ugly twin or anything like that.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2021
• Trump blurted out the truth in a campaign style speech in Louisville, Kentucky, a week before the plan failed.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2017
• Then a third friend phoned and blurted out what nobody else wanted to say: Kip was the one who had opened fire at Thurston.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• No one wants to blurt out those three words without the slightest clue if their partner will say them back.
  — Alexis Jones, Women's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
• Eilish doesn’t blurt, or stumble, or make weird gaffes.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
• Staff at the resort don’t have the same—or, really, any—freedom to blurt out their own private thoughts.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 1 July 2021
• But odds are 4-1 that one of them gets tongue-tied when trying to blurt out the second-year player's name during the broadcast.
  — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• In the Ohio case, the woman blurted out her address as soon as the dispatcher answered her call.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
• But rather than point to Mr. Biden, many Hondurans first blurt out their own president’s name as a reason to leave home.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• In front of Altman, a guy in a blazer and face mask was blurting out words faster than his brain could assemble them.
  — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• Taboo turns the classic struggle against blurting out the wrong thing into a cathartic game for four or more players ages 13 and up.
  — Popular Science, 31 Mar. 2020
• Sometimes people, without intending to be rude, blurt out the first thing that comes into their heads, and height is hard to miss.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
• The audience in the hotel ballroom did not blurt out a suggestion.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• As the hearing concluded, Perez’s widow blurted out to the judge, asking to approach the teen for one reason.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 2 June 2017
• Hence, Bella’s tendency to blurt out any and all thoughts, her blunt honesty still that of a child’s, isn’t a bug so much as a feature in the filmmakers’ eyes.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
• But that’s not something that Chris Matthews or his legions of cable imitators are about to blurt out on set.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 1 June 2021
• Viewers worked on theories all season … and … Bernard just … blurted it out when Elsie asked.
  — The Atlantic, 17 June 2018
• And sometimes, kids simply blurt out a lie before their conscious mind can react.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2021
• Where Fraga is measured with her words, Donnelly is prone to blurt out sharp opinions.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
• Besides allowing your child a chance to think of an appropriate response, this pause helps curb the impulse to blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
  — Stacey Colino, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes, Miss Manners has found, givers cannot help themselves and will spontaneously blurt out the amount.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• Or it might be blurted out during a late-night phone conversation.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
• So, yeah, that’s the M.O. here: a woman returns, says her date went well, and then the other two blurt out a random comment about her appearance to try to quell the awkwardness.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• Arriving on the scene, a relative of Probst hustled past White and his partner, blurting Ryan had fired a gun outside the home.
  — Ed Balint, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, whose name Kramer blurted out after being kicked in the head, remains a world-renowned musician.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
• When people blurt out responses because they aren’t given space to consider, the wrong things can get said.
  — Punit Dhillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
• To visitors, blurting their approval as wigs and sets streaked past, the studio’s arteries seemed like the most fun and exciting place in world.
  — Jenna Marotta, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024