Example sentences for: utter

How can you use “utter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You like sports precisely because of their utter insignificance.

  • A front-page LAT story reports that military authorities, concerned by a recent spate of public Lewinsky-driven criticisms of President Clinton by military personnel--in service-oriented publications and in the WSJ and on the Internet--are threatening service members with punishment if they utter "contemptuous words" about their Commander-in-Chief.

  • Others of Carroll's verbal concoctions are now found in our dictionaries, such as slithy (probably from slither ), gyre (from gyrate, perhaps), and chortle utter a low, deep laugh.

  • But despite its importance, this subject remains taboo in European capitals, where nobody dares to utter the most relevant but most forbidden word of the moment--the word 'federation.

  • On the positive side: It's a compelling document "of a life marked by high seriousness, good conscience and an utter refusal to submit to evil and oppression" (Jonathan Groner, the Washington Post Book World ), and upon reading it you "become persuaded that something about his combination of seeming innocence and moral honesty has the power to move if not mountains then those who have the most power" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). But complaints against the book are uniform: 1) This volume "feels anti-climactic" (Duane Davis, Denver Rocky Mountain News ) when compared with his first because it lacks the kind of compelling events that shaped his early life.


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