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Definition of Sputters
1. sputter [v] - See also: sputter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sputters
Literary usage of Sputters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Methods in Food Analysis by Henry Leffmann (1905)
"Process butter when heated in a dish sputters with but little foaming, ...
If, therefore, a sample sputters in the pan, but gives the other reactions for ..."
2. The Sunday School Journal (1886)
"One stick sputters out its ugly disposition with such explosive force that it
dulls the ... Only one stick that snaps and sputters, sputters and simps, ..."
3. The Carolina Mountains by Margaret Warner Morley (1913)
"One can sit in reverie before the calm blaze of a white-oak fire, but your Spanish
oak explodes and sputters and shoots out sparks in a way to induce ..."
4. The Sunset Land: Or, The Great Pacific Slope by John Todd (1870)
"You stick your cane into it, and, whew! it roars and sputters like a huge cat
when a strange dog comes into the room. You almost expect to see the horns ..."
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