Thesaurus results for BLUBBER

blubber

verb

ˈblə-bər

as in to cry

to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress the poor child was blubbering because he had fallen and skinned his knee

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Recent Examples of blubber The novel ends with a virtuoso lampooning of the aunt’s funeral that cuts straight through the rural superstitions and drunken blubbering. —

Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 On and on the tears flowed, from Pittsburgh to Minnesota, from Northern California to South Florida, with many blubbering that signing two-time Cy Young Award-winning Blake Snell to a $182-million contract officially makes the defending World Series champions bad for the game. —

Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 With scheming lawyer co-conspirator Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) murdered, dark Dutton son Jamie (Wes Bentley) is alone, cornered, and blubbering. —

Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024 One year ago, the chubby and blubbering soon-to-be leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was seen walking alongside the hearse that carried his dead father, Kim Jong Il. —

Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2012 See All Example Sentences for blubber

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Though the arrest took place over three years ago, the case garnered new attention in March when TMZ published a video of the altercation, which showed Paul putting Mortensen in a headlock and throwing chairs at him while a child could be heard crying.

— Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
On the side, my two best friends were crying with laughter.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 May 2026