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
If he had been uttering a moral sentiment, he could not have been externally more calm, or inwardly less agitated.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
The Lion also bellowed, as if seven thunders had been uttering their united voices; shook his awful mane, and furiously erected his tail, as the signal of attack.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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 Honoré Morrow
"I was telling Mr. Winterbourne," the young girl went on; and to the young man's ear her tone might have indicated that she had been uttering his name all her life.
From Daisy Miller by Henry James
