How To Use Blurt In A Sentence

  • And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
  • Like the invitation to run together, he blurted out such things as if he were completely unaware of how they might be interpreted, with a guileless innocence that couldn't help but put me at ease.
  • Then they are like, talking late one night and Tammy blurts it out.
  • As soon as Leslie's name was blurted out on a TV programme, the newspapers piled in.
  • I was so desperate for the object of my craving that I almost blurted out, ‘Are you going to buy that?’
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  • You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite to blurt it out.
  • Yet there I was in thick make-up and bad costumes, willingly standing on the stage and blurting my few lines.
  • You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite to blurt it out.
  • It's a first-person blurt, a perspectival non sequitur given what follows. The Times Literary Supplement
  • He's taken the club as far as he can, a fairly standard issue snidey remark blurted out shortly after Liverpool's defeat at Blackpool on Wednesday night. Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay
  • The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
  • After that, an awkward silence once again filled the room, until finally Lia finally blurted it out.
  • I was talking to Huffpo's Paul Abrams about McCain's recent random, counterproductive "blurt" about not wanting to talk to friend Spain and not talking to our enemies. Karen Russell: It's McCain's Debate To Lose
  • So after a few drinks, I just blurted it out and tried to make a joke of it. The Sun
  • A child with coprolalia may blurt out insults, racial slurs or obscenities.
  • These are the days when I can't be bothered talking about the hassles, but am happier just blurting them out ‘silently’ on here.
  • He seemed groping for a fresh beginning, then gave up suddenly all attempt at circuity and blurted it out much as though he had lived with the thought too long to endure it longer alone. Then I'll Come Back to You
  • I don't really think he meant to blurt it out that way, but he was nervous.
  • Recently he blurted out 'I need space! Times, Sunday Times
  • A dealbreaker for me is believing in astrology, which is handy since so many numbskulls blurt out references to astrology very soon after you meet them.
  • He blurts some knee-jerk retort about his music always being authentic and soulful then pauses and thinks about it a bit.
  • Once you start, it is essential that you don't just blurt it all out as this may sound like you are blaming him.
  • On the way home he suddenly blurted out that he fancied me. The Sun
  • He blurts things out without even meaning it, yet, he doesn't apologize!
  • After that my vocabulary runs out of obscure polysyllabic words and I'm forced to just stutter, stammer and blurt out something like Oh yeah? Facebook for Fishing?
  • I would much prefer people found the pain that lies beneath rather than blurt it out and have it paraded and advertised.
  • Peter blurted out the news before he considered the consequence.
  • In front of tense townspeople she blurted out words that a Bible commonwealth had to condemn.
  • Then she just blurted it out. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'There's been an accident,' she blurted out.
  • It is a source of some amusement to my colleagues that I've been singled out like this because, though I'm known as a blurter, my politics wobble between right of center and left of center. The Perils of Punditry
  • I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that cantankerous, melancholy old woman!
  • I blurted out, then blushed at my unnecessary rudeness.
  • The yearning for romance blurted out by these sweet imaginings is fierce, but the paintings are pleasantly calm, as if the act of painting them were part of a healing process.
  • So after a few drinks, I just blurted it out and tried to make a joke of it. The Sun
  • I was so emotional I could easily have blurted out something that would have got a million complaints. The Sun
  • In front of tense townspeople she blurted out words that a Bible commonwealth had to condemn.
  • Yes, Father, no, Father, I will, Father!" and never a word blurted out from the heart. The Devil's Novice
  • He had just blurted out his frustrations as only a meeting of ministers allows. Christianity Today
  • Daphne blurts the childlike word automatically, unthinking, and she rushes forward.
  • Sanchez, as Gibson, in blurting out his dumb crack, swims in a sea that's been well poisoned by latent and overt anti-Semitism. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Sanchez Must Go, But Will CNN Have the Guts to Do It
  • Then she just blurted it out. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'You're mad,' the driver blurted out.
  • 'She's pregnant,' Jack blurted.
  • Simultaneously, a distraught Martin Platt, deserted by lover Rebecca, blurted out the truth about their affair to wife Gail.
  • Then, with my arms over my head, mid-poker face from him, I decided this was the best possible time to blurt out, I had cancer. Aisling Carroll: How I Date After Cancer
  • One of them looked at the sign that labels the geyser and blurted out "it's the Great Geezer! Cryptic Cross Words
  • Now he just wants to hear the coach blurt out his name occasionally.
  • His anti-religiosity, though sometimes greatly exaggerated, was a bad stumbling-block; although he was free from the snigger of Voltaire and of Sterne, you could not prevent him, as Horace Walpole complains of his distinguished sire, from blurting out the most improper remarks and stories at the most inconvenient times and in the most unsuitable companies; while his very multiscience, and his fertility of thought and imagination, kept him in a whirl which hindered his "settling" to anything. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • But it just won't do to get up on stage and thrash around, and cry, and blurt things out.
  • The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into blurting out the truth.
  • If you can't figure out why blurting out 'I am moral and altruistic' is off-putting, then you've got some of that social autism Vox Day loves to go on about. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
  • Would he blurt out as he reached for Byrne's hand, "I don't understand you? Two Poets
  • Of course, political necessity prevented the president from blurting the awkward truth that the nation is already running near-record deficits.
  • That's worse than having him blurt out some threats in a fit of pique, he actually thought he could bring New Europe to heel.
  • The poor interviewer + spontaneous secret blurter scene is a well-worn cliché, and should be avoided as such. Author! Author! » 2010 » March
  • 'You're mad,' the driver blurted out.
  • Meanwhile, blurting occurs when Republicans can't keep bad words from leaping out between their gums. Statesman.com - Highschool
  • Kyle had swept it for listening devices and when he said it was clear the girl had immediately blurted out a million questions.
  • For much of the first half of the film Moon blurts out her lines in staccato style, which had me concentrating more on her acting than the movie. Filmstalker Review: The Devil's Rejects
  • It also found that alcohol usually gives us a helping hand to blurt out secrets – with more than half admitting a glass or two of wine could prompt them to dish the dirt .
  • Radio station interview, blurting out 'if you give $100 I'll bake petit pan au chocolat and fedex it to you'/18 people called the station ... started them all the evening of September 9/fedexed September 10 ... that night started 4 more breads ... The Moment Slipped Away
  • I'm going to loft an idea here and I don't want to prejudice your thinking by blurting out any names.
  • He memorises quotes from movies and blurts them out at inopportune moments.
  • She blurted the secret out before we could stop her.
  • She allegedly blurted out: 'I knew where she was all the time. The Sun
  • On the way home he suddenly blurted out that he fancied me. The Sun
  • I was so emotional I could easily have blurted out something that would have got a million complaints. The Sun
  • One last question lingered in my mind, and I had no reservations about blurting it out.
  • Peter blurted out the news before he considered the consequence.
  • I was so emotional I could easily have blurted out something that would have got a million complaints. The Sun
  • She just sometimes blurts things out before she thinks, and I think we should try to forgive it and go on.
  • Now he just wants to hear the coach blurt out his name occasionally.
  • The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
  • ‘Well, I couldn't very well blurt out the truth,’ snapped Sam, peevishly.
  • ‘He's propositioned every girl in our class at least once,’ she blurted out.
  • It should have been an easy conversation but I just blurted it out. The Sun
  • John Critchley scored the movie, while Ian Blurton penned three original songs for the titular character's fictional band.
  • Once, she had simply blurted out her feelings, yet there had been no catharsis, no flood of relief, only an empty realisation that she had made her mother cry.
  • I definitely know that I was kind of blurting something out, which I tend to do," says Holofcener, who turned 50 in March. Ann Hornaday interviews 'Please Give' filmmaker Nicole Holofcener
  • For example, someone blurts out "james! his name wast james! Serendip's Exchange
  • It should have been an easy conversation but I just blurted it out. The Sun
  • Recently he blurted out 'I need space! Times, Sunday Times
  • Then he just blurted out that he had a wife. The Sun
  • He blurted out the secret
  • She allegedly blurted out: 'I knew where she was all the time. The Sun
  • So after a few drinks, I just blurted it out and tried to make a joke of it. The Sun
  • ‘I once told a massager he had magic hands, that was embarrassing,’ I blurted, without thought to set up the background of my story or pretence.
  • He blurts it out as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
  • Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out: ” 'No, sir, but the badger is.' The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • The judge blurted out things he was not supposed to have put in the public domain. Times, Sunday Times
  • Advertising deals get sealed over beers, exclusive stories get drunkenly blurted out, and crucial relationships for the year ahead might be forged over your next Manhattan.
  • His use of ‘Mister’ in front of first names was a kind of honorific: people deserved more respect than simple blurting out their name.
  • Recently he blurted out 'I need space! Times, Sunday Times
  • Oh wait a minute, this is — this is the wrong poll," Asman blurted out. Happy Hour Roundup
  • Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and xylophones, bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
  • Worried, Gates offered two inconsistent defenses of himself: the letter was a forgery, and the offending phrase must have been “stealingly copied” by Hamilton when he was on his mission to Albany.8 Washington then told Gates the truth: that his own aide Wilkinson had blurted the words out in a tavern to another officer, who had passed it along to the commander-in-chief. Alexander Hamilton, American
  • Bursts of vicious guitar abuse, chattering electronics and blurty synths weave over stuttering, semi-metronomic percussives.
  • The standard is skilled to add blurt out.
  • When describing his test debut he blurts it out.
  • Drawing out some books at the desk, and while the man was stamping the cards, Martin blurted out: - Chapter 7
  • She allegedly blurted out: 'I knew where she was all the time. The Sun
  • It was none other than Rumsfeld who quickly blurted out at a Security Council meeting on 9-11 "this is a golden opportunity" and Rumsfeld's signature ison those PNAC documents, strongly indicatinghe believed and still believes that "fear and terror", a tactic lifted right out of the Nazis SS playbook, even against one's own nation, is the way to absolute power and also the way to keep it if threatened with the loss of power. Rumsfeld's Mind: If 9/11 Worked, Why Not Try it Again
  • Kids are known for blurting something important out at unusual times.
  • He had just blurted out his frustrations as only a meeting of ministers allows. Christianity Today
  • The wise and forbearant man will restrain his desire to say a smart or severe thing at the expense of another's feeling; while the fool blurts out what he thinks, and will sacrifice his friend rather than his joke. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
  • It's extr'ornar!" blurted the Provost (who was a man of brosy speech, large-mouthed and fat of utterance). The House with the Green Shutters
  • Each change under full throttle is accompanied by a small "blurt" sound, as unburned petrol escapes into the exhaust system, only to explode in that heat. Undefined
  • Then he just blurted out that he had a wife. The Sun
  • Still, I dawdled until eventually, frustrated by my denseness he blurted, "Dude, it's like TED... on steroids! M. Sanjayan: Why Summit Is on Top
  • There's no more graceful way to say it, so I'll just blurt it out: What the hell is this?
  • As the entire press corps has said, Sen. McCain blurted out a “shoot-from-the-hip” attack that amounts to empty bluster. Hula and Hawaiian Shirts at Obama’s Fund-Raiser - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • This needless blurting out of confidences to a cabman was the one folly essential to a complete restoration of his wits. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York
  • Perhaps she might even blurt it out in a confessional whisper.
  • However, if, instead, you blurt out something in the comments here on the LJ, you will discover that I am far less receptive to your advice. "Bathsheba of my choosing"
  • It should have been an easy conversation but I just blurted it out. The Sun
  • ‘I once told a massager he had magic hands, that was embarrassing,’ I blurted, without thought to set up the background of my story or pretence.
  • In the confusion of first encounters, I've become a sort of compulsive blurter of my psyche's darkest realms. Pica, Vestigial Tails: Fave Icky Obsessions Bad for Finding Love
  • Walking into a darkened hospital room, he recalled blurting out: "'My goodness, look at him.' Local News from Tuscaloosa News
  • Once you start, it is essential that you don't just blurt it all out as this may sound like you are blaming him.
  • It doesn't mean he's not mistaken," Clemens blurts out, suggesting the Rocket fuse is burning short. Pettitte comes out on top during Clemens, McNamee hearing
  • For once I felt uncertain about blurting out my real feelings. I decided to play it cool.
  • Eventually, your little baby is going to blurt out something foul, no matter how sheltered you think she is.
  • Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out: -- The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • It is called blurting, not to be confused with birthing. Statesman.com - Highschool
  • If you can't figure out why blurting out 'I am moral and altruistic' is off-putting, then you've got some of that social autism Vox Day loves to go on about. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
  • I had one such idea last night over dinner and I blurted it out straight away.
  • The remaining maggots that once powered his last few blurtings have all pupated and flown away. Bill O'Reilly tries to work his gruesome magic on Barney Frank.
  • Leaving the border in the car, Jefferson couldn't wait to blurt out the whole sordid story, which made my Uncle drive faster and my Aunt remind us all that she warned me not to wear that shorty top.
  • The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into blurting out the truth.
  • They may know about your unforgiven sins and won't hesitate to blurt out all the dirty little facts through the mouth of the victim you are trying to help.
  • Then she just blurted it out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then he just blurted out that he had a wife. The Sun
  • The ground radio blurted out the most horrible crimes.
  • A child with coprolalia may blurt out insults, racial slurs or obscenities.
  • It was also in the back of my mind that my son might have had a few drinks one night, and blurted it out.
  • I just happen to blurt it out in my work like diarrhea. R. Crumb w/ Francoise Mouly in Richmond, VA, October 27, 2009 Part 2: Music, Genesis, Open Questions » Comics Worth Reading
  • ‘That not a white elephant, that's a blue elephant,’ blurted Jim, now in convulsions of laughter at what he thought was a brilliant joke.
  • After a buzz: If consulting occurs, the consulting is then classified as a blurt as in previous rule, and 4 penalty points will be awarded to the opposing team. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • What was going through his head when he decided to open his big fat mouth and blurt out something that was so unexpected?
  • The 27-year-old blurted out his link to royalty to fellow apprentices over a boozy lunch. The Sun
  • Over at "Random Thoughts and Ramblings" yesterday, "Linda L's brain blurted out": 02.04
  • “You're a salesman,” I said, and I wouldn't call it blurting. Hybrid Man
  • On the way home he suddenly blurted out that he fancied me. The Sun
  • They walked along in companionable silence for a while when suddenly the Doctor blurted out, “You want a ring, Rose?” Update
  • He had just blurted out his frustrations as only a meeting of ministers allows. Christianity Today
  • Suddenly a thought occurred to his young mind and he blurted it out before thinking it properly through.
  • I blurted out, “Carbona Not Glue,” which to me was clearly the best song on the record. I slept with Joey Ramone
  • ‘They're gobstoppers,’ she blurted out and then began to cry.
  • Frantically putting away her sewing, Althia had the courtesy to blurt out a farewell to her mother and sister before dashing off into the hallway.

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