spluttering

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Examples of spluttering

  • There is nothing more off-putting than trying to make a speech on an important subject and hearing someone coughing and spluttering behind.

  • You get out on to a narrow platform with a miserable, spluttering gas lamp.

  • It is rather like the last few spluttering turns of an extinguishing catherine wheel.

  • Slowly, in all the different forums in which these matters are discussed, there seems to be a spluttering into life of one sort or another.

  • They become almost like doctors' surgeries when children are coughing and spluttering because of dampness in the house.

  • We shall get our oil on a commercial basis or not at all, and we have already, 7½ years ago, seen one desert pipeline broken and spluttering in the sand.

  • But many homeless people try to avoid using such provision, being understandably reluctant to spend the night in a vast dormitory in the company of coughing, spluttering, alcoholic older men.

  • Spluttering pupils emerged, asking what was happening.

  • The song is a rich, spluttering warble and the bird is more often heard than seen.

  • Suddenly it commenced spluttering and rising with incredible rapidity, causing a general stampede among our company, who all moved around to the windward side of the geyser.

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