Utterance

//ˈʌtəɹəns//

"Utterance" in a Sentence (23 examples)

She choked her utterance with sobs.

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

The utterance is potentially misleading.

This utterance is not a sentence.

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is "inseparable" from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

Tom has naturally a very agreeable voice and utterance.

Mary gave utterance to her outrage and turned away from Tom, offended.

E'en then – alas! to Trojan ears in vain – / Cassandra sang, and told in utterance plain / the coming doom.

Then Priam, though hemmed with death on every side, / spared not his utterance, nor his wrath controlled.

Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound:

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at length gave utterance to these words

July 1857, The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review Mathematics and Poetry are … the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

Mrs. Weston kissed her with tears of joy; and when she could find utterance, assured her, that this protestation had done her more good than any thing else in the world could do.

He has a good utterance.

They [...] began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

[...] O, how frail / To that large utterance of the early Gods!

The clothemakers[…] had great profite and good utterance of the sayd cloth

the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes

Among champions and such as strive for the masterie in feats of activitie, we count those for their adversaries and concurrents onely, who professe and practise the same kinde of game or exercise; for those that goe to it with fists and buffers, are commonly friends good enough to such sword-fencers as fight at sharpe to the utterance, and well-willers to the champions called Pancratiastae.

To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to th' utterance.

Besides, For the most part, the Combate was continued or ended at the discretion of the Prince, or his Substitutes, which also did most commonly part the Duellists, and not suffer them to proceed to the utterance, but pronounced them both good and approved Cavaliers upon the place, which was a token of their prudent affection to preserve noble spirits for better uses.

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