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How to use spluttering in a sentence

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A smelly torrent of water flooded over him, and he let go, spluttering bad temperedly.
Before I get to the part where I start gibbering and spluttering, I should begin by doing what I can manage coherently.
Coughing and spluttering, I reached up to unseal the airtight locks on the compartment.
When I stopped coughing and spluttering, we sat down, had a think and decided to let her have one.
We emerge, spluttering and gasping from a genuine cold salt-water bath, such as the hydropathists have no idea of.
Dimitri hopped off the spluttering bus and watched it drive, or rather screech away.
He raps with a slippery undulating velocity that few can match without descending into jibber-jabber or spluttering.
Witnesses told police they heard the plane in trouble with its engine spluttering and cutting out moments before the impact with the ground.
After that the abuse rained down continually upon the hapless Mr O'Brien, like rocks and pumice from a spluttering volcano.
But happily that doesn't mean that it or the hotel is full of spluttering Keatsian consumptives nor that the spa is especially clinical in feel.
The engine is coughing and spluttering and nobody knows quite how to keep the thing going.
It was sitting there in its pyjamas, coughing and spluttering like an emphysemic pensioner climbing stairs.
I began massaging his chest, and give him mouth-to-mouth, Mr Dance then came to help and the little boy began spluttering.
You've never been more awake as you pop your head and shoulders up out of the swimming hole, spluttering, gasping for air.
I smiled to myself as I watched her start spluttering and yelling after the car and giving him the bird.
I was just looking for the entry form in the paper when the plane's engine started missing and spluttering.
They won't take up too much room on the table, I can pick chips up easily and I can eat them without too much coughing and spluttering.
At the first spluttering sounds of the water ration's arrival through the pipes in the predawn dark, bodies spring from beds to fill buckets and pots.
It wants to be a rebel yell, but ends up spluttering silently into the void.
In reality the former Yugoslavs and Albania are more like old cars, juddering forward, breaking down and sometimes spluttering backwards.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Just a little cross-hatching, a little rough spluttering work with the burin, and we have this bit of marvellous irony.
It was my task to create a blaze with the dry, spluttering birch-bark, and collect a stack of solider fuel to feed it with.
The next moment Dan had held the end of the short fuse he had provided to the candle, and a slight spluttering began.
There she came, coughing and spluttering up the grade, the headlight turning night into day and silhouetting us in sharp relief.
A candle had been burning in the parlour, but it was now spluttering in the fat at the socket.
She could remember her, squirming and spluttering in her high nursery chair.
Shouts were heard, mingled with the puffing and spluttering of internal-combustion engines.
I held the swing door for him, and heard him bang it in the face of the spluttering and blustering master of the house.
At the same moment Joan flung the dynamite, the fuse hissing and spluttering, into the thick of the blacks.
We see the red meat spluttering over the fires upon spits of willow rods.
A monkey puzzle rocket burst, spluttering in darting crackles.
You could almost hear thee C o et e panjandrums in the BBC boardroom spluttering into their fine claret.
You're not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen.
There were spluttering and bubbling, jerking and rasping, whistling and screaming.
He started for'ard, the fuse sizzling and spluttering at his rear, the natives in his path taking headers over the barbed wire at every jump.
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