blubber
Example Sentences
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"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
These currently unmonitored chemicals were also present in the blubber of dolphin carcasses that had washed ashore, as well as in the sediment collected near the known dumping area.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2024
Typically, testing for DDT looks for four to eight chemicals, but a 2016 paper co-authored by Hoh and Aluwihare identified 45 DDT-related chemicals in the blubber of dolphins from off the coast of Southern California.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2024
She stood there silently, letting me blubber all over her sweater.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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