| offense sputter | 3.16 | Their offense sputtered. | ||
| economy sputter | 1.65 | Fifteen months later, the economy is still sputtering. | ||
| engine sputter | 0.86 | Your engine sputters. | ||
| talk sputter | 0.72 | Soon after, endorsement talks for Venus sputtered. | ||
| car sputter | 0.53 | Is your kitchen sink clogged or does the car sputter? | ||
| stock sputter | 0.39 | Bonds set new highs this week as Japanese stocks have sputtered on the gloomy outlook. | ||
| machine sputter | 0.33 | Fujimori political machine sputters in Peru. | ||
| rally sputter | 0.33 | Some traders said they expect the stock rally to sputter for a few weeks. | ||
| company sputter | 0.26 | Even relatively strong online companies have been sputtering recently. | ||
| growth sputter | 0.26 | At the same time, U.S. exports, whose growth has sputtered since early spring, declined. |