blubbering

Example Sentences

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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

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

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

“Your brother was trying to tell us that you’d fallen out, but he was blubbering so damned hard we couldn’t understand a word he was saying.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls