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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sputter .
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Examples
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Kevin sputtered as a particularly forceful stream splashed him.
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The white working class saw then that their communities were above all threatened by the newcomers and Black-burying was the gallows humour of the Teddy Boys as they caught the tube over to Notting hill intent on violence which sputtered from the riots of the late 50s.
History of the Blackberry Newmania 2007
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The white working class saw then that their communities were above all threatened by the newcomers and Black-burying was the gallows humour of the Teddy Boys as they caught the tube over to Notting hill intent on violence which sputtered from the riots of the late 50s.
Archive 2007-07-29 Newmania 2007
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And Goldy again sputtered some more than claimed he wasn't around when that incident happened.
Sound Politics: McGavick = Human, Liberal Bloggers = Angry 2006
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Seattle's offense again sputtered as defensive end Travis Hall stopped Hasselbeck at the Atlanta 24 on 4th-and-1.
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And McG's attempt to breath new life into the film end of the franchise kind of sputtered out at the box office.
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Coraline really wasn't that great ... visuals were excellent sure but the plot was a bit of a mess and kind of sputtered off towards the end.
Coraline/Nightmare Before Christmas Director Henry Selick Returns to Disney/Pixar | /Film 2010
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But the Atlanta Fed "reported a decline in the level of sales, and Richmond noted that sales 'sputtered' in August, while New York and Dallas reported that growth in retail sales slowed."
Beige book: Fed banks see widespread signs of economic slowdown 2010
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Most Fed districts reported that retail sales excluding automobiles rose, but the Atlanta Fed "reported a decline in the level of sales, and Richmond noted that sales 'sputtered' in August, while New York and Dallas reported that growth in retail sales slowed."
Federal Reserve 'beige book' signals widespread slowdown of economic growth 2010
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Most Fed districts reported that retail sales excluding automobiles rose, but the Atlanta Fed "reported a decline in the level of sales, and Richmond noted that sales 'sputtered' in August, while New York and Dallas reported that growth in retail sales slowed."
Federal Reserve 'beige book' signals widespread slowdown of economic growth 2010
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