How to Use splutter in a Sentence

splutter

verb

• She coughed and spluttered as she climbed out of the icy water.
• When I demanded an explanation, he just stood there spluttering.
• Inconsolable, Atari sets off, at the controls of a spluttering airplane, in search of Spots.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018
• And as the press were summoned out, Harry put aside his airs and graces and leant in to whisper Trudeau a joke — which made him loudly splutter with laughter.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• However, the Swans have spluttered in recent weeks and know that conceding the first goal could prove to be damaging against a more resilient Blues outfit of late.
  — SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• When the bodies were being carried out, two of the girls turned out to still be alive, spluttering and coughing before being stabbed into silence.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• When the bodies were being carried out, two of the girls turned out to still be alive, spluttering and coughing before being stabbed into silence.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The machine, which must have been cobbled together in the underground, chuffed and spluttered smokily.
  — WIRED, 11 Dec. 2017
• Aside from the risk of stumbling unawares into street battles and clouds of police tear gas — as some tourists have to their coughing, spluttering dismay — Hong Kong remains a pleasant city.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• Milan have spluttered so far this season despite Montella being handed a transfer warchest in the summer - an outlay that led to 11 new arrivals heading through the door at San Siro.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Some of his eight predecessors would have spluttered over his idea of more disclosure, which involves wider use of social media, more interviews and more engagement with NGOs.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Her tentative manner is in vital contrast to the assured, rolling cadences of the pastor at Mr. Gray’s funeral, or to the fiery, spluttering rage of a man who was arrested during protests in Baltimore.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
• Make no bones about it: Everton require further firepower to prevent their season from continually spluttering, and Niasse could be the man capable of providing the goals.
  — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Those eagerly anticipating their next dividend check might be spluttering into their latte in horror at these views.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• She coughed and spluttered as she climbed out of the icy water.
• When I demanded an explanation, he just stood there spluttering.
• Inconsolable, Atari sets off, at the controls of a spluttering airplane, in search of Spots.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018
• And as the press were summoned out, Harry put aside his airs and graces and leant in to whisper Trudeau a joke — which made him loudly splutter with laughter.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• However, the Swans have spluttered in recent weeks and know that conceding the first goal could prove to be damaging against a more resilient Blues outfit of late.
  — SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• When the bodies were being carried out, two of the girls turned out to still be alive, spluttering and coughing before being stabbed into silence.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• When the bodies were being carried out, two of the girls turned out to still be alive, spluttering and coughing before being stabbed into silence.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The machine, which must have been cobbled together in the underground, chuffed and spluttered smokily.
  — WIRED, 11 Dec. 2017
• Aside from the risk of stumbling unawares into street battles and clouds of police tear gas — as some tourists have to their coughing, spluttering dismay — Hong Kong remains a pleasant city.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• Milan have spluttered so far this season despite Montella being handed a transfer warchest in the summer - an outlay that led to 11 new arrivals heading through the door at San Siro.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Some of his eight predecessors would have spluttered over his idea of more disclosure, which involves wider use of social media, more interviews and more engagement with NGOs.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Her tentative manner is in vital contrast to the assured, rolling cadences of the pastor at Mr. Gray’s funeral, or to the fiery, spluttering rage of a man who was arrested during protests in Baltimore.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
• Make no bones about it: Everton require further firepower to prevent their season from continually spluttering, and Niasse could be the man capable of providing the goals.
  — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Those eagerly anticipating their next dividend check might be spluttering into their latte in horror at these views.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018

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