251 examples of sputtered in sentences

" "Mis' Homan," he sputtered, rising to his feet, "I wouldn't wear a red an' green plaid tie to a eel's funeral!"

" "But, Miss Ring, what well-bred person does it?" sputtered Mr. Moreland.

I want to talk with you!" sputtered Farley.

I opened one barrel and then another until I found the ones I wanted, the tender green ones that you used to like; I filled my basket and, just then hearing the back door open and a step in the entry over my head, I turned quickly and pushed my candlestick over, and, of course, that wee bit of light sputtered out.

Cocoanut produced a match and lit it and carefully ignited the thin, papery end of the ultimate little cracker on the string, and it smoked away and nickered and sputtered toward its object.

The help of Morse he brushed aside with a sputtered oath.

The rubbish at the foot had become so tightly wedged to the floor of the mine that it had no chance to burn, and by and by the glow from the burning wood was entirely extinguished, the sparks sputtered and went out, and darkness settled slowly down again upon the place.

He lighted another match; it sputtered and went out.

I suppose you'll deny all that, huh?" "Yo'reyo're lyin'," sputtered Luke Tweezy.

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 crackled noisily.

It fell on the hearthstone and sputtered.

She drowned them in the wash-bowl,they fluttered, and sputtered, and buzzed up into the air.

Already the flames were greatly subdued, and only sputtered aimlessly under the regular showers of water that fell upon them.

Those familiar with the article know how bitter is the mixture of raw meal, hops, and yeast, and so will not wonder that presently a look of horror came over the Indians' faces and that then they sputtered the unsavory stuff out all over the newly scrubbed floor.

"He didn't stay long enough to say anything!" sputtered Miss Crilly.

It was night, the lights sputtered, and I was awed by the success of the incantation.

The kerosene lamp was burning low now and sputtered dismally; but he did not notice, did not hear.

He had taken back an old servitor of his grandfather, Philip Augustus, whom that king had dismissed because his fire sputtered, and John, whose duty it was to attend to it, did not know how to prevent that slight noise.

I vainly tried to find some landmark of yesterday's march, but was at last compelled to trust to the sagacity of my horse,the redoubtable Spitfire, so named by reason of his utter contempt for gunpowder, whether sputtered out of muskets or belched forth by cannon.

Around her blazed and sputtered the terrible white lights.

" "What color are my eyes, Gaspard?" The old Frenchman sputtered, "Monsieur, they are very black.

She sputtered and giggled with the general ha, ha.

But the words next to his heart had sputtered and bubbled into nothing on his lips.

I have neglected my lessons; I have insulted the tutorthrew my book at him, and walked away, for he sputtered at me.

" I bowed nervouslyI was always nervous in his presenceand tried to write faster than ever; but, feeling his cold blue eye upon me, made a blot, smeared it with my sleeve, left one word out, wrote another twice over, and was continually tripped up by my pen, which sputtered hideously and covered the page with florid passages in little round spots, which only needed tails to become crotchets and quavers.

251 examples of  sputtered  in sentences