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Example sentences for: sputtered

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It's "an upside-down argument to think that NATO or we have made this get worse," sputtered U.S.
That the debates sputtered rather than sizzled wasn't Lehrer's fault.
" 'Because there is no Wednesday on the Japanese calendar,' said Encyclopedia Brown, as Taylor sputtered with rage.
But surely, Chatterbox sputtered, you must have read Johnson's article.
Issue 3, the Piscataway, N.J., civil-rights settlement (in which civil-rights groups paid off a fired white teacher to avoid a potentially unfavorable Supreme Court ruling), also sputtered on the shows.