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

All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

And he said he was glad to be travelling with Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, as "I would've just been a blubbering mess otherwise."

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2021

I climb out, blubbering like a little kid who skinned her knee.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas