Sentences with phrase «like blubber»

These processes work together, along with insulating factors like blubber or fur, to help animals keep warm or cool down, he said.

That means whether you gracefully punch chins with the agility of a muscular ballerina, or get clownishly knocked around like a blubbering drunkard before a fight's finally over, it doesn't really matter either way.

Not exact matches

This has been the legacy of the «seeker - friendly» movement within evangelicalism, with its toned - down doctrine encased in the blubber of psychological buzzwords like «brokenness,» «authentic,» and «spirituality.»

All of this is not why I am blubbering like a fool.

I was seriously sitting in front of the computer, blubbering like a little girl reading your UPDATEs.

National Marine Fisheries Service lab staff are studying the blubber for organic pollutants like PCBs and flame retardants.

While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.

Sea otters must eat about 25 % of their body weight daily to maintain their body temperature since unlike other marine mammals they rely solely on their fur rather than an extra layer of blubber to stay warm — it's like a 120 - pound human eating 30 pounds of food per day.

When we put the knife's release catch against the side of the whale, the knife popped in like a little guillotine by about 3 inches, so it could actually cut the blubber and get into the flesh to the embedded line.

If muscle moves the dolphin tail in one direction, blubber can help pull it back, like a Slinky spring snapping back.

And they keep their body heat even without an insulating layer of blubber like whales, seals and sea lions.

Sure you were fun to put on, disguised in the cloak of Christmas cookies, bread and chocolate, but now I'd like you to pack your blubber and leave.

However, if you still blubber like a baby every time someone mentions the name Aeris, then Final Fantasy Explorer's exceptional level of fan service will warm you up like a Chocobo onesie.

As I have observed before, what critics don't do with female authors is flop down and face east, blubbering and feet - kissing and throwing around extravagant if shopworn designations like «the Great American Novel», creating the sort of hoo - ha that recently surrounded Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

Erin Reschetar - Quintero, who fosters animals all the time says she cries like a «blubbering baby» when she has to say good - bye.

There are notable difficulty spikes, and it takes a bit to get «in the zone,» much how I could do four - button Guitar Hero like a pro but throw the fifth at me and I'm a blubbering idiot.

They can be found in both 3/2 and 4/3 thickness, perfect for wimps like me who will need the extra «blubber» this fall.

Many mammals that swim in icy seas rely on blubber, like walruses, wales, and porpoises.