blubber

Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

On the business end, there is a 3cm metal tip that plucks a piece of skin and blubber from the whale’s body.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024

They swim slowly and near shore, have thick blubber and float when killed, according to Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024

These currently unmonitored chemicals were also present in the blubber of dolphin carcasses that had washed ashore, as well as in the sediment collected near the known dumping area.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2024

Their hands and faces were all caked with blubber smoke, soot from the Primus camp stove, and dirt, and some of the men tried washing up in the snow.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

No other show sent me ping-ponging between uncontrollable giggles and mask-dampening blubbers.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021

“People,” she blubbers, losing her balance, “have always thought that I’m a problem.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

Junior blubbers and begs … and finally, to Krug’s satisfaction, does as he’s told.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2015

But if you are planning to take this book to the beach, beware it might get your towel soggy; for almost 300 pages Hannah bawls, blubbers, wails, and weeps.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2012

But really I’m thinking, what can you do with a man who blubbers when you make him pancakes?

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

One night she introduced herself to Jones, who was directing her then-boyfriend in a short play, and, by Waller-Bridge’s account, blubbered incoherently about being an actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019

“And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after,” he blubbered between heaves of tattle-crying.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2019

Bubba blubbered after each of his other three victories, too.

From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 9, 2012

“A bunch of sandlotters, those Mets,” he blubbered.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012

Another mouth appeared along the creature’s shoulder; this one blubbered and gnashed.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

On restaurant outings I have pulled up a scene from the cinematic gem “Hoosiers” and gotten choked up while my kids prayed I wouldn’t still be blubbering when the waiter came.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

You’re going to just get stern and I’m just going to be a blubbering idiot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

And I think, you know, it's kind of amazing that Hank comes to him just blubbering and in tears, and the fact that he wants to open up a franchise with him is like, "What?"

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2022

And he said he was glad to be travelling with Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, as "I would've just been a blubbering mess otherwise."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2021

The effect wouldn’t be the same if Matt were a drooling, blubbering thing on a hospital bed.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer