At intervals, apparently at each street intersection, an oil flare sputtered dimly from brackets set in the walls a trifle higher than a man's head.
A large tree spread above them, a lantern sputtered dimly upon the table, while a small fire burned upon the ground close at hand.
I'd just as soon say it to her face," sputtered Susan.
Tiny sparks sputtered out into the darkness, and the miner understood.
The perplexed Brown, fully conscious that his great strength was useless here, looked an answer, although his lips merely sputtered in vain attempt at speech.
Then as his senses cleared again and he grabbed hold of the controls once more, the engine in the nose coughed and sputtered and shot out a cloud of black smoke .
Even as Dave and Freddy crouched there watching with sinking spirits two flare lights sputtered into being directly above their heads.
These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily.
But the old gentleman did not dry there, but went on drip, drip, dripping among the cinders, so that the fire fizzed and sputtered and began to look very black and uncomfortable.
Slowly the blaze flickered, flared up, and while the anxious girls looked on, sputtered out.
With difficulty she sputtered out the story of the roof garden party.
The electric bell which summoned them to Miss Woodhull's study fairlysputtered sparks.
A woman without children is only half a woman," sputtered fat little Doctor Marshall.
The landlord sputtered and raged, and, in the pride of his late successful capture of two travellers, threatened.
A blaze sputtered up, changing the dark circle and showing the sleepers with their set, shadowed faces upturned.
Smoke again curled upward along the great, seamed tree-trunk, and flames sputtered and crackled.
The young pages were fully aware that Chia Chen's ordinary disposition was such that he could not brook contradiction, and one of the lads speedily came forward and sputtered in Chia Jung's face.
Forthwith raising her head, she sputtered contemptuously on the ground.
His guns sputtered red fire and bursts of black powder smoke.
She went downstairs and into the dining-room, feeling lost in the glow of the orange-colored flame that sputtered above the table.
The fire in the grate sputtered and flared out again.
Dodging firecrackers that sputteredand banged in the highway about his feet, and cursing soulfully, he gained the town office and grimly sat himself down.
Fahr, in particular, remarked it; and Fahr, worshipping Kenny, had sputtered and endured the brunt of many tempests.
So the feast was prolonged till candles sputteredlow and pitch-pine fagots flared out.
He sputtered out the words, one question overlapping the next.
Doctor Lake; and he, like the major, sputtered in the impotence of his rage.
His light sputteredand grew dim, threatening to go out.
A light burned on a shelf at one side of the room--a tallow dip--that sputtered and threatened soon to leave the place in total darkness.
We came here with Mortlake to do a little job fer him guv'ner," he sputtered out.
It was of cheap palm wax, andsputtered and dripped, its feeble flame formed a tiny circle of light.
The wicks were flickering their last at the bottom of the ikon lamps and sputtered audibly at contact with the water.
King Eagle is king simply because he is so big and fierce and strong," sputtered Jenny.
When that egg hatches out, that young Cowbird will be about twice as big as Chebec's own children," sputtered Jenny.
You just think he does because he happens to spend most of his time in the air the way we Swallows do," sputtered Skimmer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sputtered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
