splutter

Example Sentences

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The conveyor belt was ready, the empty bottles were stacked and the machinery was about to splutter into life.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Years of record-low rates have fuelled the tech stock rally but with those rates now rising again the appeal of stratospherically-valued tech stocks gets dimmer for investors, especially if their growth trajectories splutter.

From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2022

So as we splutter rather than sashay into the New Year, tell us how you’re seeing in the New Year.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2021

Only when I'd translated my destination from Catalan did the disembodied voice of the hire car's computerised navigator splutter into life.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2018

Then all at once, Tweedie gave a great cough and a splutter and he sat up very fast and began clawing at his face with his hands.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl