Example sentences for: utterance

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

  • This seems like a simple statement, what the linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin termed a constative utterance: a base level of communication, with no metaphor or secondary meanings attached.

  • 3) It would confirm Clinton's rep as a liar, and his "every utterance on every subject, past and future, would be suspect."

  • And our narrator, Ann Casson, “read the passages with a clearness of utterance that was remarkable.”

  • In the broadest sense, then, any language is potentially cross-talk, given a suitable situation, just as any utterance may become ironic.

  • Midnight, 14–15 August, in the year 1947, was a moment, in the words of Prime Minister Nehru, “when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ”


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