How To Use Sputter In A Sentence

Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
The shower head began to spit and sputter out hot water.
The bubble burst late last year as the economy started sputtering, and now about 10 per cent of credit card debt is more than one month overdue in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

The Fed has already cut rates seven times this year, by a total of three full percentage points, to try to reignite sputtering economic growth.
Sputtering offense again plagued the Demon Deacons, as it did when they were beaten by Maryland last week in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. USATODAY.com
Somehow I had ended up on the floor, sputtering and crying, the whole bodice of my dress no longer attached to the sleeves revealing the bodice of my under garments.
The sputtering of the economy over the past 18 months now has been overshadowed by terror and tragedy.
It was just sputtering, so I threw some more gasoline on it.
Now I could hear the sputter of machine gun fire; the booms and screeches of torpedoes.
He coughed, sneezed, and barked simultaneously -- bleated in one breath, and cackled in the next -- sputteringly shrieked, and chatteringly squealed, with a bass of suffocated roars. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
The young man made a choked coughing sound and sputtered something that sounded like rot in Hell.
Incredible, utterly, sputteringly incredible. sit; stand; jump; d. l. Oatcake Diary Entry
A sputtering light-ball of the size of a food pellet, it cast a circle of such intense brilliance on the metal ceiling that the sunglow illumination was dim by comparison. "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 4
If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering.
The engine sputtered to life, and the car pulled back.
Inside the building, Paul Meyer and his two young colleagues listened to the sputters of a cheap diesel generator.
I fought back the tears that were threatening to cascade down my rouged cheeks and the words of greeting I had so carefully crafted were choked as they sputtered from my mouth.
She lit the candlewick with a match and watched it sputter and light, then she picked up the black key. CORALINE
In unison, as a hundred languages choired below them, the imaginary stars and planets lifted into the higher regions of air, sputtering and fading as they caught a sudden wind and scattered, in a babble of fire and voices, over the bay of Istar. The Dark Queen
Another kick to the chest sent him into another sputtering cough and the men began to cackle and laugh.
Defeated in Lombardy, the revolution sputtered on in Venice, Tuscany, Rome, and Sicily.
They used energetic particles in a plasma to knock, or sputter, carbon atoms from a graphite surface, forming a carbon vapor.
The Loyalists amongst the Colonials came out in crowds to see him, eager to show their allegiance now that it looked as if the revolution were sputtering out.
The engine sputtered and leaked steam and water, but it ran, better than I'd expected it to.
The spill in my hand was beginning to sputter, but-I noticed that the cloverleaf aperture was now glowing pinkly.
Methods: The nature HA films were prepared by electron beam evaporation and rf - magnetron sputtering techniques.
There was a faint sputtering noise behind, but he barely registered the sound or noticed the flicker.
Isn't my sputtering rather feeble compared to the inspired apocalyptic rants being posted by some world class ranters?
The former pits a grinding feedback howl against persistent organs before the organ eventually sputters to a halt, exhausted.
I just know that when my money and my capacity to earn have just about sputtered out, I will be hobbling on my lame grasshopper legs to Cooper, begging for a corner in his semi-detached utility room/laundry shed where I can lay me doon and die. The bums haven’t lost. | clusterflock
It started to sputter and putt-putt and just as I reached my friends' garage door, it died.
Sputtering, uncomprehending rage was all I got in response.
If the filter gets clogged with dirt, the car sputters and stalls.
She latches onto him like a barnacle and burrows under his skin like a tick, while he sputters protests and offers weak resistance.
Laura had, in fact, been sputteringly furious at the idea of Eugenia refusing to let him keep the dog. Dreaming of the Bones
Unions are to blame cause some sputtering spile slipped its bung. Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case
The walls danced with red ochre light as the flame sputtered and spat.
The fire sputtered and spat as it was pelted by the rain, but our food was hot and I had poured the morning's broth into the jugs already.
The cruiser's engines sparked and roared to life after a few sputters.
She took a sip of the brownish liquid in her can, grimacing slightly, but not sputtering it out.
The car sputtered once or twice and then stopped.
High-register electronic tones ring out as Minton provides a howling jungle of sound effects, and the noise eventually builds up and then sputters out.
Such a situation will sputter on for a month or so.
The compound fraction of target surface was gotten from the rate equations of sputtering and the transport equations of reactive particles .
Be aware that the infant will cough, sputter, and choke during feedings.
Sputtering, I discovered the volleyball floating next to me as whoops of triumph entered my ears.
The candle sputtered for a moment.
The U.S. economy seems poised to rebound one moment, then sputters the next.
When he finally comes up sputtering from the muddy waters of the Big Black River, there is an instant when Keith Lane looks like some ancient water god who has been catapulted into the 21st century. The Catfish Men
He sputtered up and down the aisle, saying the man should be behind bars.
Sure enough, about 15 minutes later the tap sputtered and a feeble flow of water began.
Her stomach grumbled as she hungrily eyed the sausages sputtering on the blackened grill.
She reached for a pulse as the nurse rolled onto her back, sputtering and gurgling, leaving a hank of hair on the clean tile floor. DO NO HARM
I was seized, hauled aboard, sputtering and gasping and screaming in the rough hempen net, air chasing water from my lungs. Valentines, part the first
Now the Food and Agriculture Organization and other agencies warn such price rises could be the shape of things to come as farmers struggle to produce the estimated 70% more food that will be needed by 2050, even as climate change hampers already sputtering crop-yield growth and biofuels consume a greater proportion of production. Incoming FAO Chief Says Brazil Program Offers Model for Fighting Global Hunger
The most likely explanation was some intermittent natural process, perhaps resembling Jupiter's decametric sputtering. Across The Sea Of Suns
It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine. Birds of the Rockies
Motorola uses the same machinery to deposit the magnetic maternal as that used to sputter the magnetic oxide on to disk drive platters.
s micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse. Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
The grooved mating surface is covered by a layer of nickel having a consistent thickness, preferably by means of electroplating, sputtering, electroless plating, or as a foil.
The gun ship settled down to the ground and bounced around as the one good engine coughed and sputtered.
I turned red and sputtered something incoherent.
The central bank is expected to cut interest rates today for the sixth time this year in an effort to boost bank lending and spur sputtering economic growth.
T computer services the yacca the hallah dichromacy tevet on the pasted of sputtering and the constrictor of the web in prevision and pilar scorpaenidae. Rational Review
Coraline really wasn't that great ... visuals were excellent sure but the plot was a bit of a mess and kind of sputtered off towards the end. Coraline/Nightmare Before Christmas Director Henry Selick Returns to Disney/Pixar | /Film
Even our jeep sputtered from lack of oxygen and finally stopped about a mile from the top.
I'll put the cook in irons," sputtered Harriwell. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
At last the engine of my car sputtered out on the way to the border.
As a magnetic coating material, bridge paint gave way some time ago to electroplated and vacuum-sputtered layers of metallic alloys, made up of cobalt, platinum, chromium and boron.
The fermented drink burned my tongue and I ended up coughing it out, sputtering.
At last the engine of my car sputtered out on the way to the border.
In this study, prepares c-BN film by a new method, DC magnetic control sputtering method.
Soon two large, hammy hands clamped down on his flailing fists and pulled him away, gasping and sputtering, his hair hanging in his face.
As the men obeyed the command to cease firing one would again have been reminded of exploding packs of fire crackers, for the fire died down sputteringly, with here and there another report or two from soldiers who felt that they had a fine bead drawn and ached to "get" another enemy or two. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros
He sputtered back that the viscosity of melted beeswax is different than urine and blood, the two things he most commonly pours. Candlemaking - The Inevitable Spill
It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything. Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
Behind me, Drew's car sputtered down the street, the sound getting fainter and fainter as he took a corner and drove off into the night.
The engine coughed, sputtered, then died altogether.
He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question.
Knowing the poor Irish girl's weak side (her quick temper), Oscar had for some time taxed his ingenuity to torment her, for the sake of hearing her "sputter," as he termed it. Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way
We went on for about five more minutes, and then the car sputtered again, and stopped.
Surprised, the dowager duchess sputtered for a few times before exclaiming, ‘Raphael!’
Particularly outstanding is Jim Broadbent, who plays a sputtering drunk with easy stagger.
The flame sputters out.
The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust
And beneath this thick canopy the unseen deep would literally "boil as a pot," wildly tempested from below; while from time to time more deeply seated convulsion would upheave sudden to the surface vast tracts of semi-molten rock, soon again to disappear, and from which waves of bulk enormous would roll outwards, to meet in wild conflict with the giant waves of other convulsions, or return to hiss and sputter against the intensely heated and fast foundering mass, whose violent upheaval had first elevated and sent them abroad. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
‘Well, I'll be damned,’ Jerry sputtered.
He meant to leave town a sputtering, raging man, that minister, -- full of what he called righteous wrath. Green Valley
Musetta, looking like an overdressed silent-movie vamp, drives up with her ancient admirer in a sputtering antique automobile.
Marie Fermoyle turned the sputtering steak, then wiped her eyes with the dish towel.
Always looking for new ways to reduce the use of light bulbs with something other than the mercury-laden fluorescent ones, the Purdue team has used the common techniques of reactive sputter deposition and organometallic vapor phase epitaxy to come up with viable LED technology that will finally make our incandescent technology obsolete. Vacation, the environment, and high-tech
When he had covered said distance, he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guard rail.
These traditionally rural states will continue to struggle, particularly in today's sputtering economy.
Then, at 5,200 feet, the engine sputtered and, without any input, went up to 72 percent.
I totally lost my professional cool, sputtering, ‘Is this the way to try to get an interview with me, lady!’
He engaged the starter and the air-cooled engine sputtered to life. INCA GOLD
This makes them 'sputter' with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction. The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy
The mailman would arrive on a motor-scooter, sputtering up the switchbacks of the driveway; the farm plow was horse-drawn.
Bernanke himself actually accused the Bank of Japan at that time of a "self-induced paralysis" in not providing more stimulus to their sputtering economy, according to Krugman. Harlan Green: The Fed's Paralysis -- Who Will Do the Right Thing?
As the aircraft flew over his house, the engine started to cut out and was sputtering.
Her mouth opened in indignation as she sputtered incoherent, half-formed words.
The ladies both broke in at this, rather sputteringly, but Cousin Ruggles of Red Gap
Thin layers of chromium and gold were sequentially sputtered on the substrates using the following procedure.
Sputter deposition is an industrial process used since the 1970s to spray -- sputter, that is -- thin films onto various backings, like the metallic coating on potato chip bags, the reflective surface on DVDs, or the electronics on computer chips. R&D Mag - News
The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later.
We had some good drives, but then we'd get down to the red zone and kind of sputter out, '' Carr said. USATODAY.com - Football - Pittsburgh vs. Carolina
The car sputtered once or twice and then stopped.
SHS can also produce artificial bone materials, intermetallic target-sputtering source materials, and the superconducting boride MgB 2.
Motorists wait in traffic, their sputtering engines coughing a gray haze into the air.
The bike's engine sputtered and then roared back to life as the two of them hopped on.
He's a valuable player for a team whose offense often sputters deep in its territory.
A whole goat is sputtering over the fire.
But even after a two-month stump campaign, the Bush plan for private Social Security accounts is sputtering.
The engine sputtered and smoked and eventually stopped.
She pouted out t her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind and sputter in her horse-nostrils; and her chin was curdled, and more than usually prominent with passion.
Mrs. Hastings sputtered incoherently in response before suddenly jumping to her feet in a desperate attempt to compose herself.
Walking tractors sputter amongst the street traffic, producing a trail of black smoke.
In the third movement, this comes out most clearly, as the pianola sputters to a breakdown.
She reached for a pulse as the nurse rolled onto her back, sputtering and gurgling, leaving a hank of hair on the clean tile floor. DO NO HARM
sputtering engines
Chin heard gasps and sputters in the background.
It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything. Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
Chester sat up in bed painfully, and sputtered some nonsense about suing the hospital.
Such a situation will sputter on for a month or so.
Ah yes, I can still recall the thundering chorus of coughing and sputtering, the audience storm of noise that almost drowned out Christopher Plummer's poignant finale during King Lear.
Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering. Chicago Reader
An unshowy mastery of empathetic guitar-lines lends depth and variety to the rawness: shattering echoes, sinister decayed sputterings, plaintive refrains.
T's growth will "sputter" without the iPhone as a guaranteed draw, says Moffett. MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
The dollar rally also sputtered this week, as the greenback lost about 1%.
But the Atlanta Fed "reported a decline in the level of sales, and Richmond noted that sales 'sputtered' in August, while New York and Dallas reported that growth in retail sales slowed. Beige book: Fed banks see widespread signs of economic slowdown
In the 1970s, Marvel Comics tried publishing sword & sorcery titles (licensed from the estate of Robert E. Howard), monster titles (Wolk offers a lengthy appreciation of the Marv Wolfman/Gene Colan Tomb of Dracula in Reading Comics), war comics (Combat Kelly seems to have failed in 1972), jungle adventure (Shanna the She-Devil sputtered out after two attempts), even Romance -- Millie the Model lasted until 1973. The Myth of the Fall of the American Comic Book
They made their way back to the door, the fire hissing and sputtering all around them.
It roars to life and sputters noisily, but Hill assures me this has nothing to do with the biodiesel; the van just needs some work.
I can assure you, sir, I have no idea what the word 'flava' means," he sputtered. Mike Hudson: Good Night, and Good Ratings
Yeah, for now, I'm angry enough that I can barely sputter, never mind speak or write coherently.
Then, with a small sputter of exhaust, the car was off again, pulling away from the lot and off towards the main road.
The roads and rails that connect southern Canada with the Northwest Territories sputter into the town and then die.
A few moments later an engine sputtered from somewhere nearby.
The car sputtered once or twice and then stopped.
Later, stealing books in the library has sputterd on.
People in sputtering cars roared by, honking, hooting at the cowboy family in the horse-drawn wagon, churning up dust in their faces. Excerpt: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Russia's presidential campaign sputtered to an uneasy close on Monday.
Euro land is sputtering because its anti-Keynesian fiscal and monetary stance is uncalled for and counterproductive.
She coughed and sputtered at the thick foam, and suddenly remembered something else.
So long as Europe's largest economy sputters, it is hard to see a real threat of inflation in the region.
Suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped.
The car sputtered once or twice and then stopped.
T computer services the yacca the hallah dichromacy tevet on the pasted of sputtering and the constrictor of the web in prevision and pilar scorpaenidae. Rational Review
After two or three strips, even these strains get the heave, expiring with, at best, a gassy sputter.
He gagged on the sulfur, coughing and sputtering as the smoke stung his throat and lungs.
Let the rejectionists fulminate and sputter until they wear their vocal cords out. Mjh's blog — 2009 — October
Suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped.
'Don't think any one will see it there,' he said, as he cut the candle down a trifle and lit it cautiously with a sputtering sulphur match, part of the spoil from the Turkish sentry. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
All seemed well and good, right up until the engines started to cough and sputter, and then die.
The engine on his plane sputters and conks out, but the propeller never stops turning.
But the U.S.-sponsored peace process that has sputtered along since then failed to yield the anticipated final agreement.
His wife sputtered incoherently for a moment before shouting, ‘But he cannot afford to marry her!’
Now, however, he was too ill to notice it - how the people in the car began to gasp and sputter, to put handkerchiefs to their noses, and transfix him with furious glances.
Now I don't know if the energy distributions of incoming ions, so I don't know how many would be in the typical reflection region (up to say 100 eV for hydrogen) and in the typical sputtering region (up to a few keV). More Water on the Moon: Second Instrument Confirms Findings | Universe Today
I wished the print on the tabletop roll and sushi menus hadn't been too small to read in the sputtering light of oil-based votives.
A bit of audio doctoring mangled Pogue ` s AT&T in sputtering mimicry of a bad connection. P2pnet World Headlines – May 28, 2009
In the hearth, the fire had dwindled to a few remaining embers - topaz coals, weakly sputtering thin ribbons of smoke up the chimney.
Just seems no real cure to seeing the sputtering spile bunged Think Progress » Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or Somebody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It’
AT&T's growth will "sputter" without the iPhone as a guaranteed draw, says Moffett. MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
My only real fear in life - pyrophobia - can be attributed on the one hand to the part-time magician father of a childhood friend who, on the occasion of my third birthday and for reasons I will never understand, set one of my Airedale's Milkbones on a sterling silver platter, and turned it into a sputtering ball of flame with a mere wave of his hand. Elissa Altman: The Pyrophobic's Guide to Grilling
He flicked it against the striker, and, his fingers shaking as he held it up, it sputtered into flame.
If you call her deceitful, what are you?" he sputtered. Set in Silver
The air was chill, the rough-hewn granite walls and vaulted ceiling glittering with moisture, streaked with soot from the sputtering torches in sconces.
As the gas of choice (in ionised form) for sputter coating of specimens for Scanning Electron Microscopy. Argon
She was still leaning on her elbow, looking around her with a rather discontented face, when some door being opened down stairs, a great noise of hissing and sputtering came to her ears, and presently after there stole to her nostrils a steaming odour of something very savoury from the kitchen. The Wide, Wide World
And it is time for him to stop sputtering ill-tempered threats, not only at the judiciary but also at the U.S. Constitution, which he repeatedly has sworn an oath to uphold.
Thompson's face turned red, he recalls, and she sputtered something about having too many events to attend and not enough time.
But for you to leap from there to the assumption that---that I'm--- "His voice trailed off into an incoherent sputter. LORD PRESTIMION
He represents a party which has been nothing but obstructionist," sputtered Valeriani, amid much booing and hissing from the audience. HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 22ND, 2010
Checklist complete, here we go: Clear, primer out and ready, starter button press, one blade, two blades, magnetos on, and a little shot of prime as the engine began to cough and sputter.
Poor Bella -- she has to develop arhythmia, all the times her heart either stops or sputters. FlickFilosopher.com
The engine sputtered, struggled and finally roared to life.
Khanor was only watching, devoid of emotion, and Brooke could distantly hear Katsi moaning and sputtering in the front seat.
The nearby streetlamp came on: sputtering pink that steadied to a deepening rosy glow. NIGHT SISTERS
For scanning electron microscopy, dry seeds were mounted directly on stubs using double-sided adhesive tape and coated with gold/palladium in a sputter coater.
If you ask the president how he's changed, he'd probably "do one of those man noises - kind of sputter - and shrug his shoulders," said Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, his former top domestic policy adviser and an old friend from Texas. News for Lynchburg News Advance
Most Fed districts reported that retail sales excluding automobiles rose, but the Atlanta Fed "reported a decline in the level of sales, and Richmond noted that sales 'sputtered' in August, while New York and Dallas reported that growth in retail sales slowed. Federal Reserve 'beige book' signals widespread slowdown of economic growth
Sputtering, he broke the surface, a look of utter shock on his face.
The eyes of Telenews 'ace reporter and the telephoto lens of his cameraman stared down from a scooter at the furiously smoking, sputteringly incandescent surface of Triplanetary's ancient citadel; while upon dozens of worlds thousands of millions of people packed themselves tighter and tighter around tens of millions of visiplates and loudspeakers in order to see and to hear the tremendous news. First Lensman
crazy fiery Chinese fish," also known as filets of salmon, lightly steamed and then doused in soy sauce with scallions and fresh ginger, with a slug of sputtering, near-boiling oil poured over the top. Orangette
But whether an official recovery comes early or later, the economy will continue to sputter.
However, after getting off to a smashing start, the show sputters.
‘Your Highness,’ Nicole sputtered, then stopped, still too surprised to say anything more.
Japan has resisted structural economic and social reforms that could retool its sputtering economic model.
The grapes sizzled, sputtered, and melted into syrup, basting and braising the sausages in their bubbling juices.
‘Thank you,’ Hale sputtered in his own discomposure.
The '56 Mercury sputtered along like an old jalopy.
In the coating process known as sputtering, which is used widely in research and industry, energetic ions from a plasma slam into a solid, knocking out atoms that then cover nearby surfaces. Physical Review Focus -
But for you to leap from there to the assumption that---that I'm--- "His voice trailed off into an incoherent sputter. LORD PRESTIMION
And McG's attempt to breath new life into the film end of the franchise kind of sputtered out at the box office. Rabid Rewind: Terminator Salvation
After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. Sunday Reading
After that bright blaze, some sputtering. Times, Sunday Times
The enemy plane, its engine sputtering, lost altitude and turned back toward Pola.

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