How to Use utterance in a Sentence

utterance

noun

• Yet prophetic utterance was not the tenor of the book or what McHarg had in mind.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• Every utterance from a candidate is fair game, even dating back to their teen years.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 16 May 2022
• On one hand, the utterance is a punch line, unexpected and sharp, just like the book’s title.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
• These adorable utterances probably won't make much sense but may imitate the rhythms of speech.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 9 Feb. 2024
• Ideally, this utterance comes from the soul, not from the intellect.
  — Ted Ladd, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The utterance horrified two white houseguests, who quickly left the room.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• By contrast, a taboo on its utterance by non-Black people has grown only more entrenched.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• The very utterance of the pairing — Stabler to Biletnikoff — has a nice rat-a-tat-tat sound to it.
  — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• Rather than letting the gags flit by quickly, the cast pauses endlessly after each utterance to milk the laughs.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
• Theirs is a desperate utterance, an alphabet of grief.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• The public class uses that word in every other public utterance.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2024
• In terms of sentences that have kickstarted wars and caused bloodshed, this simple utterance is pretty tame.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
• Thus begin the creepy utterances, the seizures, the sudden appearances in church covered in blood and shrieking.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• One of the few people that, with a single utterance, could move billions is Taylor Swift.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
• Should observers be entitled to hear a ballot-counter’s every utterance?
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
• Nearly every pregnant utterance in the film confirms his impact on the culture.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• Like many of his utterances, the strange outburst prompted widespread confusion.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 June 2023
• Journalists would debate, report on, and fact-check his every utterance.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
• There are a few inarticulate screams and sobs but no dialogue, no lyrics, no spoken intro, no utterances at all.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
• As a video clip to accompany an elegy, the utterance would almost be too perfect.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• No instances of previous utterances are inquired about.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
• With Succession in its fourth and final season, there’s no better time to look back and try to rank every utterance.
  — Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
• Brown’s attorneys have maintained that police hadn’t heard her clearly and that the utterance was unreliable.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
• Three years later, Amazon came out with Alexa, a voice assistant that could play songs or look up facts in response to a simple utterance.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Philologists had long been studying the telltale disparities in the utterances of holy women.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Because every Black person remembers it all — each slight, every utterance of the N-word.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• Of course, given how execs at Netflix have made things worse with every public utterance, they might simply be best served by saying nothing.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
• Such public utterances against Myanmar’s powerful junta leader and the chief of its armed forces would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Eight months brings more vocalizing, mostly in the form of two-syllable utterances that your baby uses to indicate things in their life.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
• What makes the trailer magical is the script, in which every utterance sounds more AI generated than the last.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026