UTTER in a Sentence

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243 example sentences for UTTER, such as:

1. All that you have dared to insinuate is utterly false.
2. She rose, stretching her arms as if in utter physical weariness.
3. He became inarticulate with rage and uttered sounds without meaning.
4. Up the stairs he went in the utter darkness, up, up, and she was wild with fear.
5. To her, Ellen represented the utter security that only Heaven or a mother can give.

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 Meanings and Examples of UTTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
utter
 a.  complete; absolute; entire
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  To her, Ellen represented the utter security that only Heaven or a mother can give.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She did not tell them that it was utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her look so woebegone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She could not bring herself to utter any word to the Yankees, either of pleading, protest or anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  His inexperience, his errors, his utter lack of business judgment and his scruples about close dealing were the same as Hugh's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  Up the stairs he went in the utter darkness, up, up, and she was wild with fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
12  She rose, stretching her arms as if in utter physical weariness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  As she leaned back before him, her lids drooping in utter lassitude, though the first warm draught already tinged her face with returning life, Rosedale was seized afresh by the poignant surprise of her beauty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  But first, be it recorded, that, in this matter, I am not free to utter any fancied measurement I please.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
15  Hurriedly turning, with averted face, he descended into his cabin, leaving the strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter rejection of his so earnest suit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  After waiting a very long time for the final instalment, the reader felt utterly let down by the way the author chose to complete the story.
17  Archbishop Tutu said scared car owners handed over the keys but were then shot dead in cold blood for the sheer hell of it -- utterly, gratuitously, and wantonly.
18  All that you have dared to insinuate is utterly false.
19  I was a little sad to see that the world inhabited by these bands of yore is utterly gone.
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.