Example Sentences

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The reputational damage done to the utterer is the real social problem, not the more diffuse damage done by the utterance.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2019

It noted that Thomas Jefferson, utterer of a now-ubiquitous quote about preferring “newspapers without a government” over “a government without newspapers,” changed his tune once he experienced the scrutiny that comes with leading the nation.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018

Neither of those points are without value, nor do they make their utterer racist.

From Time • Mar. 10, 2015

Senator Tydings at one juncture found it necessary to call Bishop Cannon an utterer of falsehood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patience, my lord—patience for an instant—and you will see that I am no utterer of base falsehoods.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)