Example sentences for: utterly

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

  • Vast and utterly pragmatic, they are used as freely by the purists who condemn them (when they relax) as by those who simply go with the flow.

  • Also, while Talmudic scholarship is sometimes aimed at practical affairs (for instance, civil and criminal law, dietary laws, the status of women), it also considers issues that have no practical application at all, and sometimes delves into matters that may seem utterly fanciful.

  • My dad's earnest question, do you walk to school or carry your lunch? was so utterly lame, so naive, but such romps in the playgrounds of language are never tripe.

  • Where he tries to lay out a policy agenda, as in his recent book The Future of American Progressivism (co-written with Roberto Mangabeira Unger), I think he oscillates between dreary, conventional ideas (public financing of campaigns, class-based rather race-based affirmative action, a consumption tax) and utterly impractical ones (a modified parliamentary system, explicit economic redistribution, mandatory voting).

  • Thus John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , has said of Cold Mountain that it is "utterly convincing down to the last detail."


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