splutter
verb (used without object)
to talk rapidly and somewhat incoherently, as when confused, excited, or embarrassed.
had spluttered
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past perfectof splutter.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had spluttered at Everton on Saturday, labouring out of picture as the home side dominated to lead comfortably by the interval, and had been replaced by Giroud at the break.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2014
City may have arrived on the banks of the Thames unbeaten, but they had spluttered too often in recent weeks.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2012
I suppose it might have been a fairly good county paper once,—but for some years it had spluttered so feebly that one wondered how it survived at all.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
I had forgotten, for the instant, what Crampton had spluttered out upon the doorstep.
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Richard Marsh
The process was rather tardy, but as soon as a bite of the meat had spluttered and crisped for a moment, Ned bit it off, and went to masticating it.
From Through Apache Lands by Edward Sylvester Ellis
