sputter

Example Sentences

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Detroit, which can sputter offensively, controls this one with tempo and physicality.

From Los Angeles Times

The job market continues to sputter even as cost and price pressures persist, a Federal Reserve report found, underscoring the competing risks central bank officials will have to weigh at a key meeting next month.

From The Wall Street Journal

The reality is that without immigrant workers, Florida’s major industries — service and otherwise — would sputter.

From Washington Post

Now it will be seen whether that trend can hold with Paraguay, perhaps South America’s most staunchly conservative nation, as it grapples with deep poverty, a sputtering economy and deeply rooted corruption.

From New York Times

A correspondence that spans years might have its intermittent sputters, but it finally ends for a reason, and often — as with nearly all of the pairs mentioned here — that reason is someone’s death or debility.

From New York Times