Example sentences for: utterance

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

  • Robb, who had his own sex scandal and represents a generally conservative state, has made it through a year of Flytrap with barely a public utterance.

  • When and where humankind made its first intelligible utterance will never be known.

  • Finance ministers and central bankers interpreted Rubin's Delphic utterance as a sign that the United States would stop its two-year effort to push the dollar higher against other currencies.

  • Because the notice appears almost every evening on at least one channel and remains on the screen for at least thrity minutes on end, its exposure is far greater than that of a fleeting utterance by a newscaster or a similar written message that appears only fleetingly.

  • 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.


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