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How can you use “utterances” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Going to the game, shopping, making plans to take the train, giving directions to one another or to me—these little situations created high drama more often than not, but they also brought about utterances, sounds on which we could at least start to work.
But new language blooms also from the not-so-careless utterances of certain individual writers, particularly in the field of speculative fiction.
Brocade or chiffon dresses covered in who-knows-what utterances in beautiful Chinese and Arabic script, or dresses wittily made of paper printed with the New York Yellow Pages, all express a joyful relish in the decay of the written word, a forthright pleasure in the way its meaning has been draining away.
To return to Austin's distinction between constative and performative utterances: Austin eventually concluded correctly that there are no purely constative utterances.
Someone who has been brought low by scandal will tend to be more daring in his utterances, because he is trying to recover status rather than preserve it.
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