Blurting is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Blurting meaning
present participle and gerund of blurt
Using Blurting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of blurt
- In the example corpus, blurting often appears in combinations such as: blurting out, blurting it.
Context around Blurting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blurting
- In this selection, "blurting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, turn, risk, clothes, something and obscenities stand out and add context to how "blurting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include black clothes blurting obscenities at and by mistakenly blurting out a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blurting" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blurting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Instead of just blurting it out and hiding behind "What? (10 words)
Acting without thinking, difficulty waiting their turn, blurting out answers before questions are finished. (14 words)
You do need to offload though, or you risk blurting it out to the wrong person. (16 words)
Goswami, it said, had transgressed his limits as owner and was “pursuing his own agenda, being editor-in-chief is blurting out large sermons about his own case which is under probe by a statutory body”. (36 words)
In fact, Chase had the honor of blurting out 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' in all but two of the first season's 24 episodes. (28 words)
Another individual was dismissed from jury selection in Donald Trump’s criminal trial Friday after blurting out that she felt anxious during a separate panelist’s questioning. (27 words)
Instead of just blurting it out and hiding behind "What? (10 words)
Example sentences (10)
Acting without thinking, difficulty waiting their turn, blurting out answers before questions are finished.
Another individual was dismissed from jury selection in Donald Trump’s criminal trial Friday after blurting out that she felt anxious during a separate panelist’s questioning.
In fact, Chase had the honor of blurting out 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' in all but two of the first season's 24 episodes.
Writing for the newspaper, Johnson said we are living in a world where people “can be jailed for blurting something” on Twitter/X.
Goswami, it said, had transgressed his limits as owner and was “pursuing his own agenda, being editor-in-chief is blurting out large sermons about his own case which is under probe by a statutory body”.
Instead of just blurting it out and hiding behind "What?
You do need to offload though, or you risk blurting it out to the wrong person.
Valley West upheld the statistical density of screechabouts, with a man wearing all black clothes blurting obscenities at they who walked by.
I wanted it to seem like he was blurting it out of his mouth without thinking.
Most of his dialogue was improvised and he shocked the studio audience by mistakenly blurting out a curse word.
Common combinations with blurting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- blurting out 5×
- blurting it 3×