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Example sentences for: sputtering

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It was, one realized, a scene of gravity, even of mourning: Here were today's analysts, at a time when psychoanalysis seems to be sputtering to an undignified end, done in by managed health care, psychopharmacology, and the intellectual vindication of behavioral psychologists by modern trends in genetics.
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 .
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.
For example, right now the Irish economy is booming and the German economy's sputtering.
Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!