How to Use blab in a Sentence

blab

verb
  • He kept blabbing on and on about politics.
  • Don't tell Mary. She'll blab it all over town.
  • The orator had to fight the urge to blab for too long, bore the crowd or expound on a Great Life Lesson.
    Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Toby should not have blabbed about being in love with Nadal.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Alexa is all too happy to blab all the details about what’s in those packages to anyone in the house who asks.
    Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • In the book, the tight-lipped twosome are suddenly blabbing their heads off.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • The chat can go on for as long as the chattiest participant wants to blab on.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Working two jobs and trying to raise three children, there were moments Natasha wanted to blab but didn't.
    CBS News, 30 June 2017
  • Two teens who have been hanging around the hostage situation overhear the news and immediately blab about the update on the Smithereen app.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 31 May 2019
  • Torres helped strengthen the state’s case against him by talking about his role in the killing of Benitez to his cell mate, who notified authorities the wore a wire and got Torres to blab again.
    David Owens, courant.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Scouts talk to agents who talk to other agents who try to get information from scouts and executives and reporters and then blab to other reporters.
    Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • His climactic loop in a helicopter after blabbing about it for the first part of the movie is the equivalent of an old drunk at the bar reenacting his game-winning high school touchdown.
    Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Then Graham blabbed some more crap about his block-grant bill because the federal government is Satan’s playground or something like that.
    Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
  • A Donald Trump puppet came into view, bobbing above the crowd: orange face; yellow hair; gaping, blabbing mouth; and that extra-long red tie, a penis joke in its own right.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Because the Middleton clan has worked hard to keep a lid on blabbing and leaks, not much is known officially about the wedding, leaving the British media to speculate with cheeky abandon.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017
  • When a friend shares a fear, her friend must not laugh; when a friend tells a secret, her friend must not blab; when a friend eats her own feces immediately after defecating, her friend must not talk about it on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
    Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 13 Apr. 2018
  • As far as the revelation that the president blabbed state secrets to the Russians, that appears to have been the result of the memo circulated across the administration after the meeting, as would normally be the case.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 26 May 2017
  • Over-interest in a colleague’s travel details aside, Renee shouldn’t have been blabbing about someone else’s vacation to an indiscriminate group of co-workers in the first place.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Last week: 7 Jean Blanc put himself through the most awkward exit of the season after nonsensically blabbing about his intensely strong feelings for Becca.
    Nick Schwartz, For The Win, 19 June 2018
  • Take the supposition, first reported in The Post, that the president blabbed top-secret information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
    Barton Swaim, Twin Cities, 25 May 2017
  • And the media operates on much the same basis, recruiting party officials eager to blab about the latest news-cycle talking points at the expense of covering larger economic trends and policies.
    Ken Stern, The Hive, 19 July 2017
  • Scaramucci has kept on blabbing since leaving the administration.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Stranger danger for Internet news The problem is that most people weren't raised to expect that their social spaces would be full of bots, blabbing the results of simple algorithms and infecting human conversations with misdirection.
    Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 June 2017
  • He kept blabbing on and on about politics.
  • Don't tell Mary. She'll blab it all over town.
  • The orator had to fight the urge to blab for too long, bore the crowd or expound on a Great Life Lesson.
    Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Toby should not have blabbed about being in love with Nadal.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Alexa is all too happy to blab all the details about what’s in those packages to anyone in the house who asks.
    Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • In the book, the tight-lipped twosome are suddenly blabbing their heads off.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • The chat can go on for as long as the chattiest participant wants to blab on.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2020

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