How to Use blurt in a Sentence

blurt

verb
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  • In the past, King would blurt out all the swim sets at once.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • That’s why her impulses and her death drive blurt out of her.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 July 2021
  • Don’t just blurt it out one day; enlist the help of a counselor for guidance.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 1 June 2022
  • Of course, Diaz didn’t blurt out that Joel is the ugly twin or anything like that.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Trump blurted out the truth in a campaign style speech in Louisville, Kentucky, a week before the plan failed.
    — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2017
  • But blurting out the first thing that comes to your mind can lead to regret and frustration for both you and your child.
    — Francesca Castagnoli, Parents, 30 May 2024
  • Then a third friend phoned and blurted out what nobody else wanted to say: Kip was the one who had opened fire at Thurston.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • No one wants to blurt out those three words without the slightest clue if their partner will say them back.
    — Alexis Jones, Women's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Eilish doesn’t blurt, or stumble, or make weird gaffes.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Staff at the resort don’t have the same—or, really, any—freedom to blurt out their own private thoughts.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 1 July 2021
  • But odds are 4-1 that one of them gets tongue-tied when trying to blurt out the second-year player's name during the broadcast.
    — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • In the Ohio case, the woman blurted out her address as soon as the dispatcher answered her call.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • But rather than point to Mr. Biden, many Hondurans first blurt out their own president’s name as a reason to leave home.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • In front of Altman, a guy in a blazer and face mask was blurting out words faster than his brain could assemble them.
    — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • Taboo turns the classic struggle against blurting out the wrong thing into a cathartic game for four or more players ages 13 and up.
    — Popular Science, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Sometimes people, without intending to be rude, blurt out the first thing that comes into their heads, and height is hard to miss.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The audience in the hotel ballroom did not blurt out a suggestion.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • As the hearing concluded, Perez’s widow blurted out to the judge, asking to approach the teen for one reason.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 2 June 2017
  • Hence, Bella’s tendency to blurt out any and all thoughts, her blunt honesty still that of a child’s, isn’t a bug so much as a feature in the filmmakers’ eyes.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But that’s not something that Chris Matthews or his legions of cable imitators are about to blurt out on set.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 1 June 2021
  • At one point, Velma shocks Wilder’s Eugene Grizzard by blurting her true age – 33.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • Viewers worked on theories all season … and … Bernard just … blurted it out when Elsie asked.
    — The Atlantic, 17 June 2018
  • And sometimes, kids simply blurt out a lie before their conscious mind can react.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • Where Fraga is measured with her words, Donnelly is prone to blurt out sharp opinions.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
  • Besides allowing your child a chance to think of an appropriate response, this pause helps curb the impulse to blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
    — Stacey Colino, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Sometimes, Miss Manners has found, givers cannot help themselves and will spontaneously blurt out the amount.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Or it might be blurted out during a late-night phone conversation.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
  • So, yeah, that’s the M.O. here: a woman returns, says her date went well, and then the other two blurt out a random comment about her appearance to try to quell the awkwardness.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Arriving on the scene, a relative of Probst hustled past White and his partner, blurting Ryan had fired a gun outside the home.
    — Ed Balint, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, whose name Kramer blurted out after being kicked in the head, remains a world-renowned musician.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 3 July 2019

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