Explore Blurt through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like verbalize or mouth. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Blurt meaning
- To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.
- To spurt.
Synonyms of Blurt
Using Blurt
- The main meaning on this page is: To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. | To spurt.
- Useful related words include: blurt out, verbalize, mouth, utter.
- In the example corpus, blurt often appears in combinations such as: blurt out, to blurt, would blurt.
Context around Blurt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blurt
- In this selection, "blurt" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jurors, may, something and master stand out and add context to how "blurt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to blurt out headlines and dekker s blurt master constable. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blurt" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blurt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However Macron did manage to blurt out, chest pumping. (9 words)
She’ll desperately want to blurt out the truth and help Bill understand. (13 words)
Abigail will call Eli out for snooping, but he may blurt out an explanation. (14 words)
Romeo and Juliet was parodied in Shakespeare's own lifetime: Henry Porter 's Two Angry Women of Abingdon (1598) and Thomas Dekker 's Blurt, Master Constable (1607) both contain balcony scenes in which a virginal heroine engages in bawdy wordplay. (40 words)
The one thing that was guaranteed to happen at the end of all of my lessons was that one student would blurt out “we see us next week” despite me highlighting this error lesson after lesson. (36 words)
If Lois senses that Cody’s about to divulge too much, she might blurt out that Gio is the child in question and beg him not to say anything. (29 words)
Example sentences (14)
When Lyon had called from Sri Lanka with the news that he would be making his Test debut, his father would blurt out, “Oh, that’s good.
However Macron did manage to blurt out, chest pumping.
If Lois senses that Cody’s about to divulge too much, she might blurt out that Gio is the child in question and beg him not to say anything.
But again Burke appeared unmoved: 'Jurors blurt all manner of things out that are not great, that are not desirable for entire jury panels to hear,' the judge replied.
Abigail will call Eli out for snooping, but he may blurt out an explanation.
It was a risky move to blurt out “date me” — that kind of confession usually takes several episodes of build-up — but I love that she surprised me.
Jack will blurt out that Kyle and Theo might be related, and Kyle will be horrified.
The one thing that was guaranteed to happen at the end of all of my lessons was that one student would blurt out “we see us next week” despite me highlighting this error lesson after lesson.
If they blurt something out in class, are disrespectful to instructors or peers or are off-task, they can lose points from the different categories.
Indeed, Siri was one among the first to embrace the news readout feature, but it only had the ability to blurt out headlines and summaries until now.
Right at the top of his speech, all Brown could do was blurt out Oprah’s name as one of the first people he saw from the stage.
She’ll desperately want to blurt out the truth and help Bill understand.
Romeo and Juliet was parodied in Shakespeare's own lifetime: Henry Porter 's Two Angry Women of Abingdon (1598) and Thomas Dekker 's Blurt, Master Constable (1607) both contain balcony scenes in which a virginal heroine engages in bawdy wordplay.
When she persuades him to blurt out the whole story, a twist is revealed Charlotte's little sister is a school friend of Anne's.
Common combinations with blurt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- blurt out 11×
- to blurt 5×
- would blurt 2×