(v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
(n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(2) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(3) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
(4) There are still two episodes to go before it splutters over the finishing line.
(5) Most worrying of all, despite the head's spluttered remonstration, the parent didn't seem to get the point that school comes first.
(6) "Yes OK, but I don't want to die," Duncan splutters.
(7) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
(8) So when Bill Gates pitched into the debate last week with a proposal that robots should be taxed , just like human workers are, you can imagine the splutters of outrage from the neoliberal fortresses of Silicon Valley.
(9) There was a presumption in the chief executive’s comments in Chantilly on Tuesday as England conducted their painful post-mortem of the spluttering campaign at Euro 2016.
(10) But back in Paris, the tone was one of spluttering outrage.
(11) splutters John Lally, zoning in on the claim that Hazlehurst was up there with Stockhausen et al .
(12) And now there is choking and spluttering and shouts and confusion and everyone begins to turn and run back the way they came.
(13) That's assuming the hiccup in the core UK business doesn't develop into a full-blown splutter.
(14) Collateral damage extends to the spluttering peace process with the Taliban.
(15) Marc Wilmots’ complaints about his opponents’ style and tactics rather ignored the reality that his own charges had spluttered when an opportunity had been there for the taking, yet their biggest threat at the Estádio Nacional remained their potential.
(16) Consumption is likely to be a spluttering engine of growth, at best.
(17) But they can still appear as champions of the people The old image of the Establishment was summed up by the cartoons of H.M. Bateman in the Twenties, showing a hapless outsider committing a faux pas at a club or grand reception, faced by spluttering colonels or outraged dowagers.
(18) This victory took West Ham nine points clear of 18th-placed Sunderland, whom they visit on Monday, yet such a chasm seems remarkable given the way this team spluttered as they did for long periods here, their football lacking guile and purpose even if the manager said they were "absolutely magnificent".
(19) Although the noise from HP on Tuesday was about the accusations against unnamed former managers at Autonomy , the real concern should be that the company which Silicon Valley once looked to as the engine of invention is spluttering.
(20) This was by no means their worst performance of a spluttering season.
Spluttering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splutter
Example Sentences:
(1) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(2) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(3) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
(4) There are still two episodes to go before it splutters over the finishing line.
(5) Most worrying of all, despite the head's spluttered remonstration, the parent didn't seem to get the point that school comes first.
(6) "Yes OK, but I don't want to die," Duncan splutters.
(7) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
(8) So when Bill Gates pitched into the debate last week with a proposal that robots should be taxed , just like human workers are, you can imagine the splutters of outrage from the neoliberal fortresses of Silicon Valley.
(9) There was a presumption in the chief executive’s comments in Chantilly on Tuesday as England conducted their painful post-mortem of the spluttering campaign at Euro 2016.
(10) But back in Paris, the tone was one of spluttering outrage.
(11) splutters John Lally, zoning in on the claim that Hazlehurst was up there with Stockhausen et al .
(12) And now there is choking and spluttering and shouts and confusion and everyone begins to turn and run back the way they came.
(13) That's assuming the hiccup in the core UK business doesn't develop into a full-blown splutter.
(14) Collateral damage extends to the spluttering peace process with the Taliban.
(15) Marc Wilmots’ complaints about his opponents’ style and tactics rather ignored the reality that his own charges had spluttered when an opportunity had been there for the taking, yet their biggest threat at the Estádio Nacional remained their potential.
(16) Consumption is likely to be a spluttering engine of growth, at best.
(17) But they can still appear as champions of the people The old image of the Establishment was summed up by the cartoons of H.M. Bateman in the Twenties, showing a hapless outsider committing a faux pas at a club or grand reception, faced by spluttering colonels or outraged dowagers.
(18) This victory took West Ham nine points clear of 18th-placed Sunderland, whom they visit on Monday, yet such a chasm seems remarkable given the way this team spluttered as they did for long periods here, their football lacking guile and purpose even if the manager said they were "absolutely magnificent".
(19) Although the noise from HP on Tuesday was about the accusations against unnamed former managers at Autonomy , the real concern should be that the company which Silicon Valley once looked to as the engine of invention is spluttering.
(20) This was by no means their worst performance of a spluttering season.