Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for sputter

sputter

verb as in stumble

Strongest matches

Strong match

verb as in falter

Strongest matches

Discover More

Example Sentences

The cell’s energy factory, the mitochondria, sputters and malfunctions.

They continue to sputter up and down, without fully recovering.

If the only policy tool you allow yourself to use is tax credits, your reform agenda will sputter into ineffectuality.

Here's one graf: The Woodward reporting has caused the White House spin machine to sputter at a crucial time.

And racial divisions may become worse if the economy continues to sputter.

The veranda, roofless and open to the bitter blue sky where the seasonal gu rains sputter, serves as a makeshift neonatal ward.

She glanced uneasily at Gwynne and fancied she could hear him slam the lid of his breeding upon a supercilious sputter.

She laughed so hard that she blew the ashes out of her pipe, and they showered down over my face, and made me wink and sputter.

Welcome worked the requisite levers, the machine began to sputter, and the boys gave it a shove.

With a wheezy sputter, it stopped dead, refusing to answer the frantic twists Perry gave the handle-bars.

Then all they'll do is buzz and sputter until the feedback is broken with the key.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement