sputtering
Example Sentences
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It was an unsettling end to the season for the Rams, who lost back-to-back games at Seattle and Atlanta, then got off to a sputtering start in the finale against Arizona.
From Los Angeles Times
In this regime, physical sputtering plays a dominant role in shaping plasma behavior.
From Science Daily
Boston’s biotech sector, long a vital economic engine for one of America’s wealthiest metro areas, is sputtering.
Lexington’s economic engine is sputtering to a halt.
But as labor shortages, high interest rates and a costly fiscal squeeze begins to bite, growth is sputtering.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
