Example sentences for: uttered

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

  • The South China Morning Post noted that Chinese President Jiang Zemin has uttered hardly a word in public about the recent U.S.-China trade agreement.

  • For example, in a sidebar to the letters section in today's Time magazine, an editor wrote: "Several people pointed out that while John F. Kennedy uttered the phrase ["Ask not what you can do ..."] in his Inaugural Address in 1962 ..."

  • The words "a sense of closure" have by now been uttered so often on camera--along with the companion phrase "the healing process," which is what observers hope will occur after the scab of closure has formed--that they have joined the off-the-rack vocabulary of stock phrases that ordinary Americans can pick from when a camera appears in front of them.

  • Consider the trial she is now enduring in Amarillo, Texas: Cattlemen claim that, upon learning the dangers of mad-cow disease, Oprah uttered a single on-air sentence--"It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!"

  • Pope Pius XII, opening a conference at the Vatican in 1951, declared that this scientific theory of cosmic origins bore witness "to that primordial 'Fiat lux ' uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation.


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