utter
verb (used with object)
to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce.
had been uttering
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past perfect progressiveof utter.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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In a brief speech, she said what many had been uttering to each other all night: “I love you!” she boomed into the microphone.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
That age after age they had been uttering vast harmonies too deep for human ears to hear, uttering them to countless generations of men who had come and gone like the desert sand.
From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré
She looked so unearthly that, coupling her appearance with the wild, senseless words she had been uttering, Tom had a horrible suspicion that she was gone mad.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry
So far as I could understand her speech, it was the same that she had been uttering to her mate all the time.
From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
Thus he did not see the smile which Bertram--though his heart was little attuned to mirth--had not been able to repress at the words which his not over-modest friend had been uttering.
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Spielhagen, Friedrich
