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

The giant mammals build up chemical clues about their environment in their blubber - clues that Natalia plans to collect.

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

He put out his hands as though to ask, but then, when Deydey tried to blubber an explanation, only to collapse in fresh laughter, LaPautre swiped his hand through the air and scratched his head.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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 thought I’d gotten holt of myself, but I blubbered again.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

But the version performed in this all-too-short concert documentary—by the resident orchestra and the marvelous singer Sheléa—might reduce boomers to blubbering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

Blake recounted how he woke from a nap behind the stables to find Cora standing over him with her hatchet, blubbering.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead