Significados de sputter out em inglês

Then for a moment it burned clearer; then seemed suddenly to sputter out.

The six generals rose, leaving the little fire to sputter out.

He couldn't sputter out the she couldn't pull it out of his mouth.

Seven sprinklers sputter out arches of cool water, little rainbows in the mist of each one.

I am thankful the Eustace family won't quite sputter out in old maids. The old lady continued to chuckle.

Leap up and hang and swoop and sputter out;

Judah stumbled free and the colours dripped upward from him to sputter out of existence before they hit the ceiling.

White southerners who would not call colored people Mr. or Mrs. were made to sputter out Colonel or Queen instead.

Some sputter out as they travel, and are disintegrated, while others continue to glow like a piece of heated iron, for many hours.

But this spring, workers agreed to settle with the contracting company in exchange for dropping the charge after the case seemed to sputter out.

And without strong books and essays as a permanent repository for new ideas, modern movements eventually sputter out for lack of continuity and rationale.

While print publications dwindle and sputter out across the world, tablet-exclusive magazines attempt to take their place (with varying degrees of success).

But with a showdown with in-state rival Iowa on deck, Campbell wants to make sure his squad doesn't sputter out of the gate again.

The government has delayed in the hope that the student movement will sputter out, succumb to division, or marginalize itself through street-fighting and property damage.

The turn of events surprised few Wall Street observers who had tracked a rising torrent of criticism and watched revenue growth falter and sputter out.

Nor out of negligence and inadvertency should we sputter out reproachful speech; shooting ill words at rovers, or not regarding who stands in our way.