Meanings of spluttered through in English

This gets better and better, Sid spluttered through a mouthful of crumbs.

Then we came into busier streets, where ramshackle cabs drawn by lean horses spluttered through the mud.

As I turned, I watched with agony as it spluttered through the mud and over the line.

My poor little Valerie!" he spluttered through his half-checked mirth, "does she wait for me still?

A slog of a tie had spluttered through two hours of rather undistinguished toil into a penalty shootout before Hazard's moment eventually arrived.

The Bristol City defender curled home a 21st-minute free-kick as Martin O'Neill's side spluttered through the first half before belatedly finding a rhythm.

Earlier in Rome, Wales spluttered through the first half and led only 14-13 at the interval against a determined Italian side.

'Sorry?' I spluttered through a mouthful of beer.