(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.
Sputter
Definition:
(v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
(v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
(v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
(v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
(n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) All tooth specimens were sputter-coated with gold for 4 min and examined using a scanning electron microscope.
(2) And the Sunni-Shia conflict driving so much of this is not unlike the Wars of the Reformation– those took a century to conclude ... and still sputter along in Northern Island three centuries later.
(3) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
(4) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
(5) Electronegative elements will be detected with similar sensitivities in the spectrum of negative sputtered ions, but inert gases, which are ionized with difficulty and have small electron affinities, will be detected with considerably poorer sensitivities.
(6) It is based on the selective evanescent field excitation of ligands adsorbed to supported planar bilayers on argon-sputtered glass plates.
(7) of implantation the surface of the as-cast polyurethane was covered with a monolayer of platelets and leukocytes, whereas thrombus development progressed more rapidly on the sputtered polyurethane surface and at 1 hr.
(8) Looking for a solution for Britain's sputtering maternity services?
(9) The catheter segments were sputter-coated with approx.
(10) While TEM provides the highest resolution images of sputter-coated cytoskeletons, it also damages the specimens owing to heating in the beam.
(11) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
(12) Images of DNA and ribosomal subunits contrasted by sputter shadowing with tungsten are shown.
(13) Several substrates--aluminum mnium foil, silver mirror deposit and sputtered gold-provided good conductive backgrounds for chromosomal spreads.
(14) Using sputter coating to form oxide films allows control of its thickness.
(15) Sputtered coats of 1-2 nm of platinum or tungsten provide both an adequate secondary electron signal for SEM and good contrast for STEM and TEM.
(16) Forty-five sputter-coated implants and an equal number of noncoated titanium implants were placed into 15 partially edentulated dog mandibles.
(17) The forward planning in such cities runs counter to the steadily accumulating evidence in Washington that Barack Obama's efforts to green America's economy is sputtering to a halt.
(18) Here we show that construction and use of a tungsten target greatly improves the quality of the sputter shadowed deposit.
(19) The thickness of the oxide layer can also be controlled by sputter coating.
(20) This study investigated and compared the healing rates of bone around commercially pure titanium implants and titanium implants sputter-coated from a hydroxyapatite target.