Very quietly its engine stuttered to life and settled into a throaty growl.

The running lights popped on along the length of the boat, and the engines coughed and stuttered to life.

The engine stuttered then turned over with a robust growl.

The engine was stuttering and cutting out.

He made it to the yard gates before the engine stuttered and died, free-wheeled the last few yards.

Under machine-gun fire Urquhart's boat was halfway across when the engine suddenly stuttered and stopped.

Even as Nicholas thought about it the engine stuttered as it starved.

The engine stuttered and belched black smoke, then roared into life.

But unfortunately the engine is stuttering a bit.

The ship's engines stuttered, then barked suddenly into life to spiral them off at an oblique vector.