(v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(2) They didn't manage to muster a threat but the mere fact that they prevented Celtic from getting off a shot for a few minutes has audibly raised the tension in the crowd ... 8.03pm BST 18 min: "I hope that the distance travelled explains Celtic's result last week," blubs Ian Kay.
(3) It is a cardinal sin of broadcasting, in my book anyway, to start blubbing on-air.
(4) After watching Kinnock slide to defeat in the 1987 general election, he recalls standing at the Welshman’s shoulder the morning after “ a half-blubbing, mullet-haired 20-year old ”.
(5) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(6) Last month, when he lost to Federer in the Wimbledon final, Murray blubbed, feeling he'd let down the hopes of a nation.
(7) But then, considering the emotional power of music and the way it entwines itself around defining moments of your life, I'd find it more pathetic if someone couldn't name a song that made them blub like a big old stupid baby.
(8) 2.49pm GMT Blubbing athlete of the day The skiathlon is proper hardcore activity, and I have immense respect for anyone capable of completing it, let alone doing so faster than anyone else in the entire world.
(9) Thus, instead of Liverpool taking a puncher's chance into the final day, they were left with grown men blubbing on national television and a final 10 minutes that resembled Sideshow Bob stepping on all the rakes .
(10) I'm not saying this is a turnaround like when Andy Murray blubbed and the nation learned to love him.
(11) "People say I come across a bit hard, but you have to be, otherwise you'd be blubbing all the time," she says.
(12) As we said our goodbyes, that group of junior ministers was overcome with grief and began to blub.
(13) While more than 17% of US winners cried at this year's Games, a world-beating 37.5% of Team GB athletes blubbed, according to analysis by the Wall Street Journal .
(14) 2 Kremlin spin-doctors have an explanation for everything Within minutes of Vladimir blubbing in public his spokesman came up with an ingenious explanation: it was the wind.
(15) And my hair's falling out, I'm getting fatter and I keep blubbing, screaming and generally losing it, however charming my customers and friends are.
(16) And please, can I have no emails from bed-wetting kidults blubbing that you can't call us "global warming deniers " because "denier" makes us sound like "Holocaust deniers", and that means you are comparing us to Nazis?
Flub
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequent inoculation of the mice with FluB significantly increased mortality rate.
(2) That has sometimes meant retaining flubs and awkward moments that another show might fix in editing.
(3) We have examined hepatic lipid profiles in a mouse model for Reye's Syndrome (RS) in which young animals are exposed to nontoxic doses of an industrial pesticide emulsifier and subsequently are infected with sublethal doses of mouse-adapted human Influenza B (Lee) virus (FluB).
(4) He lost additional points for flubbing the end of the somersault in Israel when he tried to explain the economic differences between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through a cultural prism (that may end up offending Mexican Americans as much as he appeared to offend Palestinians).
(5) But Kasich flubbed his intro: he appeared disorganized and sometimes antic.
(6) Even Biden's rhetorical flubs – which, admittedly, are mesmerizing dadaist poems with the kinetic frenzy of a Kozachok dance – get a free pass while my Ricky's do not.
(7) So how did Bill Shorten flub his opportunity to land hits on Malcolm “seven day economy” Turnbull where he’s truly vulnerable?
(8) Neonatal mice given nontoxic dermal applications of an industrial surfactant, Toximul MP8 (Tox), and subsequently infected with sublethal doses of mouse-adapted human Influenza B (Lee) virus (FluB) develop many of the biochemical features of Reye's Syndrome (RS).
(9) The New York Daily News called Romney's visit to the UK "flub-filled".
(10) He came into office preaching the gospel of the New Deal, but punted on the home foreclosure crisis even when he had the banks over a barrel, opted for an economic stimulus that was far too weak and flubbed healthcare reform.
(11) The combined Tox + FluB treatment had several significant effects on liver lipids, including a transient increase in phospholipid (PL) content, a reduction in neutral glycerides and persistently high cholesterol levels.