blubber
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Dolphins continue to be poached for their flesh and blubber, from which oil is extracted to use as fishing bait.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
A more definitive answer, however, will have to wait until he receives results from blood, blubber and tissue samples collected from the whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
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
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
Both of these stoves were stoked with seal blubber and could boil two and a half gallons of water from ice in half an hour.
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
Bill blubbers about the inhumanity crushing him in his job.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 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
“She looks like an old cooking pot,” blubbered Aunt Chipo.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
But before I started blubbering and babbling everything to her, my heart stopped me.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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