Example sentences for: utterances

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

  • In Wordspinner , some of the quizzes are mere vocabulary tests, though couched in light-hearted utterances; for example, at Graffiti II the reader is asked to define the underscored words in sentences like “Clark Kent was a transvestite” and “Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry,” though one could think of a lot of regrettable actions for which vasectomy would be a feeble excuse.

  • West has an unfortunate tendency to refer to his utterances as "prophetic"--a judgment best left to others.

  • You can follow its regular eruptions through his career, from Buchanan's 1972 memo to Richard Nixon suggesting that he link a primary opponent with "New York Jewish money," to the now infamous 1977 column I excavated some years ago from the archives of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which Buchanan offers qualified praise for Hitler, to dozens of subsequent utterances that mitigate fascism and cast aspersions on nonwhites.

  • 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.

  • Each chapter and subchapter in this section starts with a quotation from previous utterances of President Clinton, set in italics and enclosed in a box.


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