Example sentences for: uttering

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

  • Upon uttering the password his friend has revealed to him, he is escorted into a mansion where some sort of high priest dressed in red is swinging incense and rapping a staff on the marble floor as lugubrious choral music drones on in the background.

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

  • 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.

  • Buchanan pities the "Lone Eagle," who he says suffered "for the rest of his life--and beyond" for uttering "three short paragraphs."

  • After uttering the usual platitudes about how The New Yorker is the best magazine in the business, Tina became farklempt as she pronounced, "I love you all."


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