Example sentences for: uttered

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

  • It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:

  • 3) One of the colleagues, who was black, stormed out, and rumors spread that Howard had uttered a racist remark.

  • At that moment I would have bet my very soul that he hailed from The Land Of Rabbie Burns, and the first words he uttered showed the intuition inherited from my mystic forebears to be firing on all cylinders.

  • When uttered in circumstances where taboo language would seem either gratuitous or otherwise inappropriate, rude words are not only equally out of place in the world of make-believe as in the real world but, worse, they interfere (in both) with the message.

  • Neither is the (so-called by puzzlers) minced oath Egad! , which was uttered by a blimpish comic-strip character whose identity I am too lazy to look up.


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