splutter

Example Sentences

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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

In 2004, when Mount St. Helens began to cough and splutter in a concerning manner, Dr. Moran became wrapped up in a surfeit of tasks.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 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

To which the Talking Robot’s only response was an erratic splutter and an occasional incoherent sound.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov