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
He is uttering some sarcasms upon the poor "art of speech."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
Such inattention is practically saying that what the person is uttering is not worth attending to; and persons of real good-breeding always avoid it.
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
Upon words; spelling them by sounds, that is, uttering the elementary sounds separately, and then the whole word.
From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick
