Example sentences for: uttering

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

  • Challenged repeatedly by Gore on the high cost of his health proposal, he finally responded by uttering, in his unmodulated, low mumble: "I want to make one clarification.

  • Chatterbox is impressed that Robert G. Kaiser (former managing editor of the Washington Post ) and Michael Janeway (former editor of the Boston Globe and author of the just-released Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public Life at the Millennium ) managed to conduct an entire interview with Washington lawyer-lobbyist Harry McPherson without once uttering the word "tobacco."

  • The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.

  • (The quotations marks are intended to emphasize criticism of the practice of all the media to devote an inordinate amount of time and space to the interviewing and promotion of actors, singers, and other entertainers, most of whom have nothing to say and who make their living uttering words created by others.

  • She is the most famous person since Helen Keller to achieve her notoriety without uttering a single public word.


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