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Example sentences for: sputtering

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Undeniable is the grossly comic intention and effect, doubtless a reflection of pop culture's infatuation with the sputtering, guttural, goofy German (rather than Yiddish) sounds of TV's Stalag 17 .
Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!
When she fails to sell that house, she closes the shades and lets go with a naked wail--it's the sound of a vacuum crying to be filled--then furiously slaps herself while sputtering, "Shut up--you're weak--shut up.
The Wall Street Journal reports that according to the latest Labor Dept. figures, the economy last month suffered the biggest loss of factory jobs in 16 years, a clear sign, says the paper, that the manufacturing sector is sputtering.
For example, right now the Irish economy is booming and the German economy's sputtering.