Speak spasmodically

Usage examples of sputter.

Stirred by towers that poke above the host of city lightintense white carbide lamps, smoke-burnished red of lit grease, tallow twinkling, frenetic sputtering gas flare, all anarchic guards against the darkthe winds rejoice and play.

That did not appear to mollify the padres, still fizzing and sputtering.

And when at last they reached the trench, those farthest on the left of the advancing Britishers heard a machine gun sputter suddenly before them and saw a huge lion leap over the German parados with the body of a screaming Hun soldier between his jaws and vanish into the shadows of the night, while squatting upon a traverse to their left was Tarzan of the Apes with a machine gun before him with which he was raking the length of the German trenches.

While his electric arc sputtered its rain of minute drops, another worker close by plated another disk with granulated silver by-passed into an exoacetylene flame and thus blast-driven into the preheated surface.

Before him, Ranunculus rasped and sputtered, the skin of his bearded face turning purple.

Ineptly smothering his own sputtering guffaws, Joe frantically thrust up his hands, again wiggling the fingertips for silence.

At last I broke the surface, sputtering and coughing, so weak I could barely swim to shore.

In the perimeter lights I saw dozens of diminutive men and women in black pajamas scurrying about, white stars sputtering from the muzzles of their weapons.

Tanalasta burst into fresh tears, a short shower that ended in a lopsided, sputtering smile.

She rode his legs, and with brutal efficiency drove the drill bit through his kneecap, the drill whining and sputtering, bringing up flakes of white bone, and black blood, driving it in until the drill chuck touched his jeans.

He shook some of the soap under the sputtering pump, swirled the cold water to make suds.

Isaac and Yagharek, and stepped out of the darkened alley into the sputtering firelight in front of the houses.

Leroy was sputtering in excitement, and the Martian kept his vicious beak directed at us, so I stepped forward as peace-maker.

Across the sand, clear for an instant against the white ground coral of the beach, the figure of the small devil with the half-human posture showed, and a malevolent sputtering snarl sounded.

A vehicle went sputtering and popping by on the road as they kowtowed.