blubbering

Example Sentences

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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

Your plays “Eurydice” and “The Clean House” recently reduced me to a blubbering awe-struck wreck.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

"That moment, being about to be announced as Olympic champions, I was gone. I was blubbering," said Daley.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2021

The little boy, who ’peared to be ’bout five years old, was blubbering and churning his legs up and down like he was still on the run but he waren’t moving nowhere.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis