How to Use utterly in a Sentence
utterly
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Some of my books have failed utterly.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 May 2026
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So, at the very least, this looks and sounds utterly pristine.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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None of this is utterly shocking, mind you.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
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Ditch Google maps and get utterly lost for at least a couple hours.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2023
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Then he was undone by his own mind — and by a health care system that utterly failed him.
—Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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And like Maduro, the supreme leader is utterly alone.
—Aaron Pilkington, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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And like Maduro, the supreme leader is utterly alone.
—Aaron Pilkington, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
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Her blunt bob à la wet look feels utterly refreshing.
—Omenaa Boakye, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
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Then your point is utterly empty.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
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For something more flowy, this denim shirt dress looks utterly chic.
—Alyssa Morin, InStyle, 29 May 2026
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Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
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My ego—what was left of it— was utterly defenseless.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 9 Jan. 2026
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That’s where this utterly gorgeous face-framing look comes in.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
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Even though she was utterly devastated, a small part of her saw it as a kind of gift.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Jan. 2026
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Those forces utterly collapsed in a matter of hours less than a month later.
—Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2023
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His voice is utterly singular as an artist.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
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Clark is in an utterly safe seat in the Boston suburbs.
—Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
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Steven died much too young, which was utterly heartbreaking.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
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More and more content that is distorted – or at the very least, utterly bland.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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In the past eleven years, the Boy Scouts have been utterly transformed.
—The Editors, National Review, 10 May 2024
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By the time Mokhtari is done, the pencil is utterly destroyed, of course.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 May 2024
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Whenever the ball reached his feet, the crowd held its breath, utterly transfixed.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
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That will be their response made utterly weak by the fact these haters live here and don't show any signs of wanting to leave.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
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That would be utterly ridiculous!
—Leigh Kiniry, CBS News, 15 June 2026
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Both of those have been utterly forgettable.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
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Is utterly a, changing of the movement.
—Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2025
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Whether those methods or any other of the floating around schemes will save us is utterly unknown.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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There can be lots of falsehoods that the AI assumes to be utterly true.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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That charge is disgusting and utterly false.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
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Life in the middle, utterly self-absorbed.
—Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
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