sputtering

Example Sentences

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The demand is all the more surprising given that home sales—a big driver of furniture and appliance imports—are sputtering.

From The Wall Street Journal

Whether it's been age profile, a creaking scrum, a sputtering attack, the unsettled fly-half situation or a British and Irish Lions hangover, most of the discussion has been largely negative.

From BBC

The dearth of public transport is another nail in the coffin of the sputtering economy.

From Barron's

Instead, the arcs, lobes, and central dust cloud likely formed through a coordinated series of sputtering outbursts deep within the carbon-rich core of the aging star.

From Science Daily

While sputtering performance in the tech sector has heaped pressure on the index, other stocks have helped to at least partially offset their losses.

From MarketWatch