Example Sentences

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“Free speech doesn’t protect you if the speech you are uttering is criminal,” Mr. Segall told The Times.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023

And to sound as though you mean every single word of the speech and are uttering it for the very first time.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2020

Now two new teammates are uttering the best compliment they can bestow on Grabovski — he’s easy to play with.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2013

You will never be quite sure whether you are uttering words of inspired . . . aptness, or whether you are being completely inept.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, the dance is an alternation of wild dancing and intermittent pauses; and during the dancing both the males and females are silent, but during the pauses they are uttering their songs or cries.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood