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

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

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

Now they had 1,000 pounds of meat and at least two weeks’ worth of blubber.

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

He blubbers about beauty, about shame, about the death of cats, about art, about John McEnroe’s tennis defeats, about movies, about fatherhood, about rejection, about love, about fear.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2014

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

I said a bunch of other things and blubbered as everyone stared at me.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Faced with retirement and missing out on one more Ashes dance, Harris was a "blubbering mess".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 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

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

I was grateful she was willing to cut class so that Evan wouldn't learn that he'd turned me into a blubbering wreck.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi