How to Use utterance in a Sentence

utterance

noun

• Yet prophetic utterance was not the tenor of the book or what McHarg had in mind.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• On one hand, the utterance is a punch line, unexpected and sharp, just like the book’s title.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
• Thus begin the creepy utterances, the seizures, the sudden appearances in church covered in blood and shrieking.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• Ideally, this utterance comes from the soul, not from the intellect.
  — Ted Ladd, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• These adorable utterances probably won't make much sense but may imitate the rhythms of speech.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 9 Feb. 2024
• The utterance horrified two white houseguests, who quickly left the room.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Every utterance from a candidate is fair game, even dating back to their teen years.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 16 May 2022
• By contrast, a taboo on its utterance by non-Black people has grown only more entrenched.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• With Succession in its fourth and final season, there’s no better time to look back and try to rank every utterance.
  — Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
• Three years later, Amazon came out with Alexa, a voice assistant that could play songs or look up facts in response to a simple utterance.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• In terms of sentences that have kickstarted wars and caused bloodshed, this simple utterance is pretty tame.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
• Nearly every pregnant utterance in the film confirms his impact on the culture.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• Such public utterances against Myanmar’s powerful junta leader and the chief of its armed forces would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Because every Black person remembers it all — each slight, every utterance of the N-word.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• The line easily whipped up a frenzy among fans of the couple, the utterance seemingly capturing the entire energy of the duo’s push-pull love story.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2022
• To some, that means verbal torture, talking up the smack, giving utterance to the moment, whether its straight into the mug of an opponent, a referee, or anybody else.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
• The public class uses that word in every other public utterance.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2024
• Like many of his utterances, the strange outburst prompted widespread confusion.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 June 2023
• As a video clip to accompany an elegy, the utterance would almost be too perfect.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• The portrait of a monarch on money used to matter a lot more before ubiquitous tabloids covered every move and utterance by the royal family.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Of course, given how execs at Netflix have made things worse with every public utterance, they might simply be best served by saying nothing.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
• Frames from the baby's-eye view video with their accompanying transcribed utterances.
  — Will Henshall, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• Todd stopped himself in mid-utterance, right in the middle of blurting out the word no campaign operative ever says with a camera or microphone close by.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• At one point Joe, whose every utterance is obvious, explains to Lola why people will support his walk.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2021
• Eight months brings more vocalizing, mostly in the form of two-syllable utterances that your baby uses to indicate things in their life.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
• Should observers be entitled to hear a ballot-counter’s every utterance?
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
• Philologists had long been studying the telltale disparities in the utterances of holy women.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• The one or more speech-synthesis parameters, when incorporated in a speech-synthesis model, can cause a speech mode of the synthesized speech to match the speech mode of the utterance.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Apr. 2021
• Brown’s attorneys have maintained that police hadn’t heard her clearly and that the utterance was unreliable.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
• While often the utterances of older, male bosses, these jibes may also come from women leaders who waded through waves of misogyny to advance in their careers.
  — Paul Sullivan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024