sputter
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.
Yet emissions reductions could fall by as little as 32 percent if legislative implementation sputters and new pollution rules are squashed in court or left on agencies’ drawing board tables.
From Scientific American
But analysts at JPMorgan see a potential Minsky moment ahead as interest rates rise and economic engines sputter, citing concerns about global banking woes among other signals.
From New York Times
Instead, Ms. Desai said, she thinks that investors have grown to expect the Fed to come to their rescue as soon as financial markets sputter.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
