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Example sentences for: uttered
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A jest is never uttered at someone else's expense.
Batouti is suspected because: 1) he uttered a prayer immediately before disengaging the autopilot; 2) his controls were in the "nose down" position, while the captain's were in "nose up"; and 3) the captain pleaded with Batouti to help him pull the plane out of its dive.
In the end, Chatterbox took the advice of reader Josh Green, a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, which every summer calculates the year's biggest political cliché by using the search engine for the Congressional Record . Chatterbox took the better entries from readers and plugged them into the Record 's search engine to see how often they were uttered in Congress between Jan.
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.
Much as the one tangible consequence of Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise" speech, in 1979, was that it taught millions of Americans a new French word (which Carter in his speech in fact never uttered; the word was picked up from pre-speech "spinning" by Carter's political adviser, Patrick Caddell), so too a consequence of the Thompson committee hearings has been to give wide currency to the term soft money , in the sense of "money that can be collected for use in political campaigns but which enjoys an existence outside the rules, the oversight, and the control of the Federal Election Commission."