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Example sentences for "splutter"

Lexicographically close words:
splitting; splotch; splotched; splotches; splurge; spluttered; spluttering; spoake; spoaken; spoil
  1. A waft of acrid-smelling smoke drifted into the conning tower, making the occupants cough and splutter like men subject to asthma.

  2. From the extreme left of the camp, just as the Royalists were settling down for a brief night's slumber, there came a running yelp, a baying, and a splutter of wild feet.

  3. They had been forced to divide their weight over the snow in this strange fashion, and even as it was they sank at intervals with many a gasp and splutter into the great white depths.

  4. A murmur of men's voices, punctuated by the splutter of matches as hundreds of pipes were lit and relit, went up on all sides.

  5. As he spoke there was a splutter and the lights went out.

  6. A large drop of water, splashing down from the roof of the cavern, caused the light to splutter and go out.

  7. The light of the lantern began to splutter and flare up, showing that the oil in the cup was running low.

  8. But at the end of that time there was a splutter of shots, a few faint squeals, and then a bonfire lighted up away in the darkness.

  9. Their animal faces champed and gibbered at him; the animal smell of them made him splutter and cough.

  10. The altar gates are flung wide open, thick clouds of incense float in the air near the candelabra; wherever one looks there are lights, the gleam and splutter of candles.

  11. A splutter of bass laughter went up from the natives at this lucid direction, which, however, the other man soon made clear.

  12. Down in the camp, the sullen splutter of rifles, and ever and anon the angry, knock-like bark of the Maxims.

  13. Then he began to cough and splutter again.

  14. The strange beast, disturbed by the splutter of the match, began to move again.

  15. When it began to splutter and steam, he regarded it as a challenge, and would want to fight it, only, at that precise moment, some one would always dash up and bear off his prey before he could get at it.

  16. But he would get more and more piano as he went on, and the last verse generally collapsed in the middle with a splutter and a hiss.

  17. Following the application of the two-finger movement, relief would come quickly, with a splutter and a stammering apology for not catching her last remark.

  18. All I could do was to stammer and splutter like a bass viol tuning up, while I sozzled around in my chair trying to break in with something that would count.

  19. Our great ammunition fire in the hollow of the hill burned merrily, and by-and-by a furious splutter of Mauser cartridges began, with every now and then the louder report of shells and great smoke balls hanging in the air.

  20. There was still a steady splutter at dawn on the 23rd, and before the light was full grown the guns joined in the din.

  21. Then another, then a regular splutter of musketry.

  22. See how the sausages burst and splutter in their different pans.

  23. During the summer time the boys' bathing lakes in Victoria Park are crowded and alive with youngsters, who splash and flounder and choke, splutter and laugh in them.

  24. He was just on the verge of adding a few trembling mushmellows about the stars and stripes waving in the free, pure air of America when his emotion got a hackenschmidt stranglehold on his large oily thorax, and he couldn’t splutter it across.

  25. With a splutter I arose to find myself in utter darkness.

  26. Thus far on the voyage, with fog so long our portion, we have come to know the exact whistle-notes of our neighbours, down to the cough and steam splutter of the older ships.

  27. His only reply was the splutter of the small fire which they dared not augment.

  28. The splutter of rifle fire still haunted the night.

  29. I don't think so," she replied, with a splutter of mirth, wondering what whimsicality was coming next.

  30. He made such a row, in fact, that neither of them heard the convulsively half-repressed splutter which burst forth somewhere behind them.

  31. And even as he spoke the guttering tallow candle, swaying in its socket, suddenly went out with a loud splutter and a sizzle that echoed through the desolate room like the mocking laugh of ghouls.

  32. Rateau would, no doubt, have protested loudly, but the fresh outer air had evidently caught his wheezy lungs, and for a minute or two he could do nothing but cough and splutter and groan, and cling to his unresponsive comrade for support.

  33. For'ard a splutter of dim reddish sparks told him that already the time-fuse had been lighted; but the Hun responsible for the firing of the bomb had not yet bolted for the deck.

  34. There was a faint murmur of applause from the Left, splutter of contemptuous laughter from the Right.

  35. There was a faint splutter of applause, but the majority of the audience remained silent, waiting.

  36. From the ranks of the silent, awe-stricken company, each member of which was wondering by how much of the loss his own meagre pay would be mulcted, there came a splutter of laughter.

  37. Something nipped at his right shoulder, and at the same instant ticked the coffeepot and overturned it into a splutter of steam and hot ashes.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splutter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.