SPUTTER


Meaning of SPUTTER in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Solano sputtered that there must be some mistake.

The country's transition to democracy continues to sputter along.

The engine sputtered and died.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Chaos had been averted, though strikes in the public services sputtered on.

He sputtered up and down the aisle, saying the man should be behind bars.

In both instances the sputtering war in the world outside becomes something more personal within the artificial community of these isolated characters.

Patients experience a sputtering downhill course and an inevitable loss of mobility.

Since then, political parties have proliferated, but the transition to full democracy has sputtered along.

The drummer passed out, the bassoonist dropped his bassoon, the trombonist sputtered and went sour.

The engine sputtered to life with a corrupting puff of diesel exhaust.

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