sputtering

How To Use sputtering 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
• Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
• 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.
• 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
• Incredible, utterly, sputteringly incredible. sit; stand; jump; d. l. Oatcake Diary Entry