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.
At the start are sputtering bows and glissando slides over a droning foundation that is occasionally built out into briefly sustained, then shifting chords.
From New York Times
There's a lot of chatter right now about Florida Governor Ron Desantis' presumed presidential campaign sputtering before it's even started.
From Salon
Hopes for even a brief truce to allow humanitarian access have repeatedly emerged and sputtered.
From New York Times
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