UTTERLY in a Sentence

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1. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
2. The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.
3. The meeting was a complete and utter waste of time.
4. He became inarticulate with rage and uttered sounds without meaning.
5. The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.

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 Meanings and Examples of UTTERLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
utterly
 ad.  absolutely; completely
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery but that he interests himself deeply in the projects of others.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  Krempe with warmth, "every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost."
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I was.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  '"'It is utterly useless,' replied Felix; 'we can never again inhabit your cottage.'
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  But now, when I appeared almost within grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished, and I lost all trace of him more utterly than I had ever done before.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for a moment I was sorry I'd ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  It was his genuine impulse to adore the truth, and to reckon all things shadow-like, and utterly devoid of weight or value, that had not its divine essence as the life within their life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
15  His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  The meeting was a complete and utter waste of time.
17  Complaints are the greatest offerings that God obtains from human beings, as well as the most faithful prayers human beings might utter to God.
18  The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.
19  Its path to the playoff is dependent on utter chaos; but the teams ahead of it have faced several more.
20  His stilted rhetoric did not impress the college audience; they were immune to bombastic utterances.
21  They indicate the relationship of utterances in the mind or in the world and are thus in a way contextual.
22  Suddenly there was a flash of light and Tom came tearing by him: "Run!" said he; "run, for your life!" He needn't have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered.
23  Long pauses came between each of these remarks; they were uttered in toneless and monotonous voices.
24  Now, uttered before a stranger, the accusation cut me to the heart; I dimly perceived that she was already obliterating hope from the new phase of existence which she destined me to enter.
25  It reminds us of all the wise and witty things that our political masters have uttered in the past year.
26  When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful malediction.
27  He became inarticulate with rage and uttered sounds without meaning.
28  The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.
29  She could choose her own partner in matrimony, as long as she gave no utterance to her passions and emotions.
30  There are always referential alternatives possible to the speaker and addressee and to the observer in relation to any utterance.