How To Use Blubber In A Sentence

They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.

No, not fat as in gross blubber bouncing around my waist and stuff; it's just that I think I'm about a few pounds heavier than I was when I was really fit in first year.
The UK has become a vast blubber mountain. The Sun
When we tried to microwave some frozen whale blubber sent down from Barrow, we ended up laughing as the muktuk sizzled and got tough. Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk
blubber cheeks
Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber.
Other cases are shots of birds wheeling overhead, or dog teams riding, or kayak trips, or cleaning blubber that are all too long.
Mr Rudd wept as he said he was proud of his achievements - but not of 'blubbering'. Home | Mail Online
I don't propose to have "-- _shake_ --" an old windbag offering _me_ his blubbery old bosom "-- _shake, shake, SHAKE_ --" at this time of my life! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation. Wuthering Heights
When I looked at his face I saw his blubber lips twitching with the efforts of attempted smile, but he couldn't quite carry it off.
He was not a lumberjack, or a fur trader, and he didn't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dog sled.
At this point I am taking a coffee break as I retch once again at the thought of whale blubber sitting unhappily in my oesophagus.
She was crying and blubbering, unable to believe what I was doing.
The ventral surface of the pouch is covered by grooved blubber, on which the 50-90 grooves extend from the jaw tips to as far posteriorly as the umbilicus. Archive 2006-10-01
Yes I am losing my blubber, but I have tonnes of it left to lose.
As we ease in for the pick-up, I can see a tiny nub of blubber protruding from the end of the tip.
Potato chips aren't rubbery and blubbery like fat. They are crispy and crunchy like lettuce. That proves they are diet food.
They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
Here he found remains of structures for rendering blubber into whale oil.
Even so, they might have managed to scrape through the winter on their stock of frozen salmon and stored blubber, and what the traps gave them, but in December one of their hunters came across a tupik (a skin-tent) of three women and a girl nearly dead, whose men had come down from the far North and been crushed in their little skin hunting-boats while they were out after the long-horned narwhal. The Second Jungle Book
Then into the hollow goes the whalebone, so, tightly coiled, and another piece of blubber is fitted over the whale-bone. The Story of Keesh
Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!
An issue about human mountains of wobbling blubber in danger of making their country sink under their weight. The Sun
Charcoal, Propane, Mesquite, whale blubber, whatever gives you the taste that you desire.
Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
An issue about human mountains of wobbling blubber in danger of making their country sink under their weight. The Sun
And when the short day left them, and the man lay down in the snow and blubbered, it was the woman who lashed him to the sled, bit her lips with the pain of her aching limbs, and helped the dog haul him to Malemute Kid's cabin. THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
Yet no one seems to like a blubber. The Sun
The City and Westminster used to groan under the weight of excess blubber. Times, Sunday Times
Yet no one seems to like a blubber. The Sun
I looked in the mirror at my blubber and blubbed. The Sun
A gull will land on the back of a surfaced whale and rip at its flesh and blubber.
All you do is sob uncontrollably in the fetal position while blubbering, ‘I miss my Nana!’
A nice piece of blubber from a walrus or some reindeer tallow," said Menie. The Eskimo Twins
East gave a little ghost of a smile, and his hand tightened, and then went loose in mine - and I found I was blubbering and gasping, and thinking about Rugby, and hot murphies at Sally's shop, and a small fag limping along pathetically after the players at Big Side - because he couldn't play himself, you see, being lame. Fiancée
They chewed at it until, softened, it yielded, like blubber or leather, to their understanding.
Cassidy placed a firm kiss on his cheeks and ushered herself out of the door before the tears could break through the mental dam and she began blubbering again.
Yet the movement of his blubber lips, closely pressed together, showed clearly that he could not understand a word.
Wild boar, squid in black ink, raw seal liver, air-dried whale blubber, zebra. Lea Lane: The Weirdest Foods I Ever Ate
After a about another half an hour of crying, blubbering, and her trying to tell me how she felt, she finally fell asleep and I softly moved her head to her pillow.
Occasionally she sighs deeply, with that blubbery, spluttery noise that all horses make when they sigh. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
Finally, blubbering and whining, the papa bear - triumph of American technology - just gave up.
Yet no one seems to like a blubber. The Sun
Then, limping over to Barn's prone body, he straddled the man, and sat down on his blubbery belly. GALILEE
Indeed, if it came to tonnage, I believe a good blubbery right-whale could easily give points to any deinosaur that ever moved upon oolitic continents. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
It is iaid, thai fiich Blubbers - came from Ireland to live on his bouoty, that b« was obliged, for obvioos reafons, to make a law, that no ilraoser Cbonld cootinae on a vifit boger than a year tad a day, snlefshecoaldgiTeaitifficiefitrealbn for tc« The Works of the Caledonian Bards: Translated from the Galic
His blubbering died to a sniffle, which he trimmed with his sleeve.
We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber. Times, Sunday Times
Ada was blubbering now, tears and snot running down a red face, she opened her mouth to say one more thing, but at the last moment found some resolve.
And every town on the route seemed to produce at least one blubbery streaker, sliding along the ice on his bum, to relieve the waits between passing groups of skaters.
He was to investigate the pathology, the pesticide levels in the blubber, try to do bacteriology and virology.
Lies on a reinforced bed all day, a vast mountain of blubber. The Sun
“Gam,” a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about “spouters” and “blubber-boilers,” and such like pretty exclamations. Moby Dick; or the Whale
There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
Somehow that thought doesn't seem so foreign, the way she's whimpering and carrying on like that, shaking and blubbering like an overgrown and very ugly baby.
Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
Now she's blubbering away all over again about something else.
Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil. Moby Dick
Paramore shook up their pop-metal repertoire last year with The Only Exception, a blubbery ballad about wuv. Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing?
East gave a little ghost of a smile, and his hand tightened, and then went loose in mine — and I found I was blubbering and gasping, and thinking about Rugby, and hot murphies at Sally's shop, and a small fag limping along pathetically after the players at Big Side — because he couldn't play himself, you see, being lame. Flashman In The Great Game
She blubbered, completely unable to stop herself and completely humiliated that she was crying like a madwoman in front of Jordan!
Overweight, blubbery, unfit bodies are no great advantage at 19,000 feet and so the bodies were whipped into (some sort of) shape.
He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words: 'nitwit', 'oddment', 'blubber' and 'tweak 1, and again, had to suppress a grin ... what was the matter with him? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Mum asked me why I was crying and I blubbered, ‘Everything.’
Large quantities of unused frozen meat and blubber have been found on rubbish dumps after recent drives.
Dear me, this indifferent Antenna bastardly blubbered at this ubiquitous. Planet-x.com.au » Caravans accessories Caravans Antenna travel park accessories
I decided to do it just because I have lived with a little too much blubber around my middle for my entire life although the rest of me is quite lean and fat-less.
Lies on a reinforced bed all day, a vast mountain of blubber. The Sun
The UK has become a vast blubber mountain. The Sun
Kevin Rudd's family were "blubbering" again in Brisbane on Tuesday night, but this time they were happy tears celebrating the launch of daughter Jessica's first novel. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
And instead of saying "I would like to say a few words: Nitwit! blubber! oddment! tweak! Harry Potter and the Dropped Ball
To escape the blubbery kisses of great aunts and the beery, fag - fugged breaths of distant cousins, we children used to escape outside, playing a game called Jumping the Gardens, which was modelled on the Grand National.
The UK has become a vast blubber mountain. The Sun
Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty -- still panting hard -- and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering -- his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood which flowed from his nose -- nose that seemed to Lenny The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
She sobbed, wailed, blubbered, howled, cried and whatever people do to express sorrow hoping that her tears and crying will bring her other half back.
They try to keep still, to conserve their resources of blubber and mother's milk.
The answer is all too mundane: The blobs are old whale blubber.
So in lieu of packing, I spent Saturday sniffling and blubbering over two years of Scottish detritus.
Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen, who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counsellors, and clergy. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
I'm less proud of the fact that I have now blubbered," he joked, as he struggled to contain his tears. Australia Gets First Female Prime Minister
I've said before that my metabolism wavers sinuously between stallion and walrus, and I've been getting noticeably blubbery in recent months.
The storeman, plastered with snow, reappears hot and triumphant before the cook, but this dignitary is awkwardly kneading the dough of wholemeal scones, and the messman is feeding the fire with seal-blubber to ensure a "quick" oven. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
An issue about human mountains of wobbling blubber in danger of making their country sink under their weight. The Sun
A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.
There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
I have it on good authority that the whale thinks that this ballyhoo is a bunch of, well, blubber.
Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat. Ulysses
In other words, there's more to whales and sharks than blubber and dorsal fins; and the sooner we acknowledge this, the longer we may last in the evolutionary game of snakes-and-ladders.
That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness. Moby Dick; or the Whale
The whale is rich in blubber.
You are a pathetic little person who seeks nothing but attention and I enjoy poking your blubbery pale belly. Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist
A word every prep fears, due to the fact they hate seeing a little bit of blubber on anyone, especially themselves.
Limbaugh is a blubbery, drug-addicted hypocrite — the perfect face of the Republican Party. zooman Says: Matthew Yglesias » John McCain, Dittohead
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny Fairfield's feelings to be a nose no more, but a swollen, gigantic, mountainous Slawkenbergian excrescence; in fact, he felt all nose! My Novel — Complete
Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
She pouted out t her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind and sputter in her horse-nostrils; and her chin was curdled, and more than usually prominent with passion.
Take some exercise and get rid of some of that blubber!
He whinnied for his lost mother all that first day and night, blubbering in the corner of the pasture, and he clung to his resentment as he grew into a half-ton adolescent.
Aquatic birds and mammals, equipped with subcutaneous blubber, may also have a covering of fur or feathers.
There is cuddly fur and downy fluff to stroke, rubber-like blubber and armour-like scales to feel - mammals certainly come in all manner of wonderful varieties.
Back in the light, I turned to find an eight-year-old blubbering at my side.
I burst into tears, blubbering to his retreating form.
The likeliest cause for your expanding waistline is just excess blubber. The Sun
Surrounded by snow and ice, an Aleut hunter slices slabs of raw whale blubber for dinner.
We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber. Times, Sunday Times
There are so many celebrities/non-celebrities that are willing to pay lots of money to have the plastic surgeon to give them that blubber lips.
The whales visible in the distance can live here only because they are protected by thick layers of blubber.
The whale is rich in blubber.
The smell of the sea was in the air as picnickers feasted on sun-dried halibut, muktuk, whale blubber, and Greenland raisin cake.
A crew of men sets to work stripping the great whale of its blubber.
He wore an army greatcoat, not big enough to cover his blubbery belly although it was buttoned across his chest.
The name was coined by whalers, who considered the species the ‘right’ whale to hunt because its blubber makes dead whales float, aiding recovery of the carcass.
The transients ambush them - they have a taste for the gray whale calves' high-energy blubber and protein-rich tongues.
Similarly, the current weight control standards seem to be deliberately designed to keep fat-necked, big-bellied blubber balls in the Army while pushing muscular and fit mesomorphs out the door.
They'd be reduced to blubbering babies, begging for their lives.
He thought the fellow that I had described as blubbering over his still-born poems would have been better occupied in earning his living in some honest way or other. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
At last, he asked: ‘How can we help you?’, on which cue I burst into tears and blubbered incoherently.
There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
What gives these epidermal exhibitionists the right to force everyone else in the Republic to eyeball their blubbery thighs and ratty chest hair? Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
A compound of imbecility and baseness, yet an object of commiseration: an unmanly, blubbering, lovesick, querulous creature; a soldier, whining, piping and besprent with tears, destitute of any good quality to gain esteem, or any brilliant trait or interesting circumstance to relieve an actor under the weight of representing him. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
I'm rolling in blubber, drowning in my own lard.
Whale meat and blubber is shared out locally, and a small amount is sold to pay for the upkeep of boats.
a coarse blubbery individual
He sobbed, blubbered and moaned, without shame or moderation. How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile)
"Omigod, omigod, omigod," she blubbered.
But the discerning reader soon realizes that the reason Linda is picked on has nothing to do with her weight although her weight is the subject about which Linda is most sensitive and therefore the subject on which Wendy chooses to focus the majority of her taunts and that the term blubber doesn’t have as much to do with Linda’s size as it does her personality—or lack thereof. Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
There were bits of skin and blubber left behind and the mast was wrecked. The Sun
The amount of contaminants in the meat of sea mammals is also low, but the level of contamination in the blubber of seals and whales is high.
If we don't stabilize Iraq, unchecked bloody civil war will break out and the butchery will be 100X worse than present levels Lefties blubber about so "heartfeltly". "The biggest question is how far can Democrats go in opposing this president?"
Each of them seemed panicked and blubbery, mumbling to themselves in French. Crossed
Whales, and also seals, are provided with remarkable special networks of blood-vessels in various parts of the body (called "retia mirabilia" by the old anatomists,) and also with a thick layer of fat under the skin, the "blubber" (some feet deep in a large whale), full of blood-vessels. More Science From an Easy Chair
When refined into kerosene, it was the only ‘cheap illuminant that burned in a bright, clean, safe manner,’ by far better than blubber and lard.
At best that loud, fat, smelly walking pile of hu-mon blubber is a capable man beast for filling my food bowl. GOD TRIES TO STOP SANDLER/SHANKMAN FILM
The City and Westminster used to groan under the weight of excess blubber. Times, Sunday Times
Dear me, this indifferent Antenna bastardly blubbered at this ubiquitous. Planet-x.com.au » Caravans accessories Caravans Antenna travel park accessories
She was, to put it politely, a big girl: big-boned and blubbery, with long, mousy brown hair that hung like curtains in front of her face. The Dark Side of Innocence
Correct me if I’m wrong but it looks like Specter is just like all the other Republicans and simply posturing, blubbering in feigned indignation, and mugging for the camera’s in the wake of the November elections. Think Progress » Specter Caves, Proposes Blanket Amnesty For Illegal Government Surveillance
But that business is encountering its own problems, specifically a bottleneck in processing seal blubber for nutritional supplements.
Fourteen years later, Norway is preparing to resume the international trade in whale meat with a 10 ton shipment of meat and blubber from minke whales destined for Iceland.
The Inuit of Point Barrow AK (Inupiats?) don't have access to the food sources people in the lower 48 take for granted, Without a Bowhead whale or two there is no muktuk (whale blubber, a staple) for the kids and the people go hungry. b On Canadian Seal Hunting
Workmen on the flensing deck of the factory ships, where the blubber and meat is stripped off the animals, quickly realized that two quite different kinds of killer whale were being hauled up the slipway for processing.
The Blubber Point Member, characterized by impure limestone and calcareous sandstone with minor shale, represents shallow, inner carbonate shelf deposition.
The object of this curious arrangement is to enable the whale to catch the little shrimps and small sea-blubbers, called "medusae," on which it feeds. Fighting the Whales
They might look blubbery and slow, but they can move when they have to.
Observing so much beauty in a single evening made me exhausted, blubbering like a little girl.
The smell of the sea was in the air as picnickers feasted on sun-dried halibut, muktuk, whale blubber, and Greenland raisin cake.
This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath
As the other girls line up one by one to blubber heartfelt tributes to their departing colleagues, a saccharine melody is piped in over the PA.
Young and old chewed thin slices of raw whale blubber as quickly as it was being cut off the carcass.
blubber lips
Here I was, a blubbering heap, sniveling before these grand people…
Whale meat and blubber is shared out locally, and a small amount is sold to pay for the upkeep of boats.
An acquired taste has been created, which suffers under disappointment as cruelly as when the Greenlander is deprived of his whale-blubber, the Gascon of his garlic, and the East Indian of his curry.
With whaling still outlawed, the Japanese are out of practice when it comes to taking out large blubbery mammals.
There were bits of skin and blubber left behind and the mast was wrecked. The Sun
You will return to my blog and blubber all over me in weepy gratitude once you've heard them.
Eventually, someone in Iowa bought a few items, including a tiny pair of red socks, the sight of which sent me blubbering into my pillows again. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
She felt nothing for its demise, except perhaps disgust at the rolls of blubber, and the absurd inelegance of her distress. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
She blubbered out a apology.
The likeliest cause for your expanding waistline is just excess blubber. The Sun
Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
He lived with his mum and his nan, two enormous, frightening women, who would often wade into fights to defend their son's honour, which was bloody, often and reminded one of Norwegian whalers flensing their catch of blubber.
In my case, in addition to my belly, my chest was still misshaped from carrying too much blubber.
There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
If you ask me these cry babies are simply looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, but surely there are smarter ways to embarrass yourself than to sit around blubbering in an empty football stadium.
After they killed the whale - in what looked like food sharing - one killer whale held down the carcass as the others tore the thick, resilient gray whale skin and blubber.
You may meet me with my satchel at my back; not with a shining, but a whindling, lackadaisy, green-sickness face; blubbering a month's sorrow, after having been flogged by my master, beaten by my chum, and dropped my plum cake in the kennel. Anna St. Ives
The likeliest cause for your expanding waistline is just excess blubber. The Sun
I have it on good authority that the whale thinks that this ballyhoo is a bunch of, well, blubber.
He was short, blond, blubbered out, and clowned out in top-to-toe tie-dye, with thick horned-rim glasses. Mescaline Blues
Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber.
Stop blubbering anymore, it just a snake.
The tongue of the whale was regarded as a delicacy, while salted whale blubber could be bought in any French town.
Lies on a reinforced bed all day, a vast mountain of blubber. The Sun
He was to investigate the pathology, the pesticide levels in the blubber, try to do bacteriology and virology.
One could call Chris "blubbery," but if he is, it clearly hasn't hampered him. East Side Boxing
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
Internal to the grooved blubber is the muscle tissue of the buccal pouch, and this is unique, containing large amounts of elastin, and consisting of an inner layer of longitudinally arranged muscle bands and an outer layer where the bands are obliquely oriented (Pivorunas 1977). From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny My Novel — Volume 03
I ate buckwheat noodles with rooster sauce and blubbered about having ‘ruined Passover.’
The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great numbers for the oil rendered from its blubber.
The City and Westminster used to groan under the weight of excess blubber. Times, Sunday Times
Wrap the oogruk flippers in blubber for two weeks until the fur falls off. Q&A: A conversation with Nancy Farmer, Author of The Sea Of Trolls
And when the short day left them, and the man lay down in the snow and blubbered, it was the woman who lashed him to the sled, bit her lips with the pain of her aching limbs, and helped the dog haul him to Malemute Kid's cabin. 12 “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
There were bits of skin and blubber left behind and the mast was wrecked. The Sun
I was a little bit blubbery, to be honest, but Chelsea was all excited.
Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
Usually a scientist shows up and says of course it's… whale blubber and covers it up.
Bring up their two little girls and I'll probably start blubbering.
The likeliest cause for your expanding waistline is just excess blubber. The Sun

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