utter
verb (used with object)
to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce.
is uttering
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present progressiveof utter (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Writing software seems all the more like sorcery because, well, all you’re doing is uttering words.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2019
"Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say," Mr Kim wrote, displaying a keen sense of the original meaning of the word.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2017
We do not pause at each mouthful to dwell upon the taste of it: nor has the speaker time to ask himself the comparative merits of different modes of expression while he is uttering them.
From Cratylus by Benjamin Jowett
How quickly he has finished it—and listen to that curious shriek he is uttering, and how oddly he moves his head and neck.
From In the Wilds of Africa by Alfred Pearse
Here the mind of Macbeth, having long been accustomed to the nurture of its “royal hope,” conceives that it is uttering a very suitable hyperbole of comparison.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
