blubber

"It had bite marks on the pectoral fins and around the edges of the torn blubber which are consistent with grey seal bite marks," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

The daughter of a disgraced house, Valya isn’t content to accept her family’s banishment to a life peddling whale fur and blubber.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024

This was a revival of an older recipe, we were told, but the chicken was a blob of blubber with the consistency of paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

They were all miserable, cold, and completely filthy, since the last of the soap had been saved for Green, who stood all day in the greasy smoke of the blubber stoves.

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

The singer himself told The Times in 1992 that the album’s hit ballad, in which a grizzled narrator blubbers over the one that got away, “had a real strong emotional peak on the record.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 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

A blubbered and distorted face confronted her; the creature was crying.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

Keep a box of tissues close by: I was a blubbering mess two minutes in, when Hanks follows Murray’s cold open with one of the eulogies from Candy’s funeral.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

"That moment, being about to be announced as Olympic champions, I was gone. I was blubbering," said Daley.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2021

I heard him in a blubbering tone commence the tale of how “that nasty Jane Eyre” had flown at him like a mad cat: he was stopped rather harshly—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë