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Example sentences for "spluttered"

Lexicographically close words:
splotch; splotched; splotches; splurge; splutter; spluttering; spoake; spoaken; spoil; spoilage
  1. At this the innkeeper fell into a passion of rage, and though he was a stammerer he began to talk at a great rate, and the greater his haste the more he stammered and spluttered like a dog that has just come out of the water.

  2. Over the front of the stockade something flew through the darkness, its parabola marked by a string of sparks that spluttered behind it.

  3. Come in," spluttered a moist, cheery voice, and Toppy entered.

  4. He still spluttered and blew in his sleep.

  5. She spluttered enthusiastically at the man.

  6. And so she had spluttered on all the way to Bignor church, working her voluble mouth, and punching the air with a small brown fist.

  7. I'm awfully sorry, padre,' spluttered the inventor, weak with laughing.

  8. It wouldn't be Oppner," spluttered Rohscheimer, appearing, towel in hand.

  9. Smail spluttered and cursed, but he was evidently doubtful on the point of law, and after standing irresolutely in front of the window for a minute or so he turned on his heel and shambled out through the gate.

  10. Tis your doing," spluttered Noakes, shaking the soot from his clothes.

  11. When he did, however, he was twice as much excited as Michael, and spluttered forth a fountain of questions about his progress during these years with a great deal of information about his own.

  12. We work hard in this parish," spluttered Chator.

  13. Maurice spluttered with rage at this, and Michael saw it would be useless to remonstrate with him reasonably.

  14. It's not because we don't long to move among them," Chator spluttered in exasperation.

  15. He spluttered inarticulately, stood up in the boat, and nearly fell overboard.

  16. I spluttered in the middle of a word; I had never thought of the possibility that the handsomely grayed temples of the Company's senior executives, as inevitable as the vest or the watch chain, were equally a part of the uniform!

  17. He spluttered and squirmed, but I saw him climbing into the seat as I went inside.

  18. The sulphur match spluttered and stank, and I'm blessed if his fingers didn't tremble so much when it came to lighting the wick that he dropped the burning splinter altogether.

  19. So help me, Dick, that's knocked the edge off her for the rest of this trip," Tommy spluttered as they crouched to the lee of the tent.

  20. I'll thank you to leave go, suh," spluttered Mr. Taylor.

  21. Marry, that have I," spluttered his antagonist, trying to scramble out of the rushing water.

  22. Tis yours, forester," spluttered the knight, still holding fast to his manner of courtesy.

  23. I turned on him fiercely, and spluttered out his own words: "Never meant to send it?

  24. I'll get youse yet," spluttered the moist one through his watery whiskers.

  25. Their moment had passed; they could not overtake it; the match had spluttered and gone out at the fuel laid for the fire of fanaticism.

  26. The single torch which spluttered from the wall as they drank their coffee lighted up faces as strange, withdrawn, and unconsciously secretive as ever gathered to greet a guest.

  27. Don’t you believe it,” spluttered Sleuth as they reached the open air.

  28. It’s Hunk—I mean Girty,” spluttered Cooper, rising on his hands and knees.

  29. The two men spluttered wildly, half in anger, half in fear of their tormentors, but in a few seconds they were secured firmly against the canvas-topped wagon.

  30. The deputies spluttered with rage and fear.

  31. I spluttered wildly, and I threw a disordered glance at the horizon, and at my astonished crew.

  32. Then self-love conquered hate, and we kicked ourselves free and spluttered to the surface.

  33. Daisy choked and then tried to drink, and spluttered and got purple, and had to be thumped on the back.

  34. Some of us tried bread and butter, but it seemed dry and difficult, and those who tried tea choked and spluttered and were sorry they had not let it alone.

  35. Paul spluttered with laughter: "So you think that Floortje is happy as Luxury, on the top of Marianne and that Marianne suffers badly underneath!

  36. Don't you see what you are suggesting, Jenny," Sir Chichester spluttered helplessly.

  37. At that moment Jean sprang to his feet in the embrasure of the window, a lighted torch, which spluttered and flared up, in his hand.

  38. He says there's a girl who loves--who loves him," spluttered the soldier.

  39. And he went on writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked.

  40. Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, "And you were saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French?

  41. Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator.


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