How to Use splutter in a Sentence

splutter

verb

• She coughed and spluttered as she climbed out of the icy water.
• When I demanded an explanation, he just stood there spluttering.
• Barcelona's attacking three coughed and spluttered at times, but not Suarez.
  — SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• If the focus fell on the spluttering attack, what about the defence?
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 24 June 2026
• Since no one knew who was watching what and when, watercooler chat and even many recap blogs spluttered out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
• Hackman always had his own roguish charm, but with a slow-burning, spluttering sense of rage.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
• Pam splutters, half laughing, half indignant.
  — Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
• Then all at once Finley was up and pushing against my chest, spluttering between us what looked like a gallon of sea bilge.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• The conveyor belt was ready, the empty bottles were stacked and the machinery was about to splutter into life.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Inconsolable, Atari sets off, at the controls of a spluttering airplane, in search of Spots.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018
• Cover partially, as the mixture will splutter, and simmer for 8 minutes.
  — Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
• Instead of letting their game breathe, Juventus kept spluttering.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• The coach should take some responsibility for that; almost a year into his tenure, his team is still spluttering.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The machine, which must have been cobbled together in the underground, chuffed and spluttered smokily.
  — WIRED, 11 Dec. 2017
• The extent to which his team are dysfunctional is almost untrue, but a spluttering bandwagon rolls on.
  — Phil Hay, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
• When the bodies were being carried out, two of the girls turned out to still be alive, spluttering and coughing before being stabbed into silence.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• Soldiers moved past the emergency room and through the cardiology unit, staff said, as gunshots rang out and doctors spluttered through the smoke.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• United fans will be hoping that the squad’s summer upgrades, both in system and personnel, have helped improve what has been a spluttering setup.
  — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
• The pop and shake of spray paint cans alternates with the rat-a-tat-tat of spluttering exhausts from Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 June 2025
• Any hostilities would no doubt lead many Chinese and American factories to splutter and die.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• Those eagerly anticipating their next dividend check might be spluttering into their latte in horror at these views.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• Wolves have been spluttering all over the place this season, but now have two wins on the trot in all competitions following their last gasp victory over Besiktas.
  — SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• However, the Swans have spluttered in recent weeks and know that conceding the first goal could prove to be damaging against a more resilient Blues outfit of late.
  — SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw two interceptions and lost a fumble as the offense spluttered.
  — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
• Aside from the risk of stumbling unawares into street battles and clouds of police tear gas — as some tourists have to their coughing, spluttering dismay — Hong Kong remains a pleasant city.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• Since then the German economy has spluttered like a car that’s continuously stalling as higher energy costs put the brakes on Germany’s vast industrial base.
  — Simon Constable, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Even as Liverpool have spluttered and stuttered, Mikel Arteta’s side have doggedly refused to take advantage, declining to ignite the thing as a contest.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
• Some of his eight predecessors would have spluttered over his idea of more disclosure, which involves wider use of social media, more interviews and more engagement with NGOs.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Milan have spluttered so far this season despite Montella being handed a transfer warchest in the summer - an outlay that led to 11 new arrivals heading through the door at San Siro.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• By the late 2010s, the precursors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E were spluttering to life, making real the future that the Army had envisioned in World War II.
  — Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025