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• These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.From the entry grammatical
• A surgeon performing an operation may make empractical utterances to her assistant to request tools, such as "scalpel".From the entry empractical
• Sometimes a difference in intended meaning has only a zero to mark it, in which case the utterance may be ambiguous when context alone does not fully clarify it.From the entry zero
• It was one of his few utterances without profanity, the person added.2025 September 12, Glenn Thrush, Devlin Barrett, Adam Goldman, “Patel and F.B.I. Face Scrutiny as Kirk’s Killer Remains at Large”, in The…. From the entry profanity
• We define didactive utterances to mean teacher utterances on the nature of (mathematical) knowledge.2010, Despina A. Stylianou, Maria L. Blanton, Eric J. Knuth, Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades, page 297. From the entry didactive
• Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards."2004 December 6, Irish Times. From the entry gesticulate
• When he finally began to speak, his agitolalia, or habit of rapid utterance, was more pronounced.1982 -, Jon Ewbank Manchip White, Death by Dreaming, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry agitolalia
• Today his public utterances still make headlines, but his real leadership has passed.1969, John Ardagh, The New French Revolution, page 359. From the entry god that failed
• One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214. From the entry grammaticality
• She thought of Eleanor with her habit of giving spontaneous utterance to stray and irresponsible accusations.1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, published 1965, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 196. From the entry becloud
• These would-be immortals are revealed as frail and vain beings at every utterance.1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31. From the entry disillusionary
• The Red Dean's utterances, as usual, got on some people's nerves.1945 November 26, “Religion: Canterbury Red”, in Time. From the entry give someone the business
• And Vickers launched forth in a tirade very different from his platform utterances.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203. From the entry occasion
• As for that dear crazy-pated girl's dream, that it resulted from some indiscreet utterance of Mr.1917, William De Morgan, chapter XII, in The Old Madhouse, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, published 1919, page 173. From the entry crazy-pated
• His “Hitchslap” putdowns of Islam and every other religious group or utterance are as caustic as they are uncompromising.2018, Iain Ellis, Humorists vs. Religion, page 11. From the entry Hitchslap
• Consider the case of expressives, where no prior knowledge of the speaker’s attitudes are required to interpret the utterance.2017, Tammi Leann Stout, An investigation of projection and temporal reference in Kaqchikel (dissertation for the University of Texas at…. From the entry expressive
• I am, even now, losing myself forever losing myself in my own prophetic utterances, alone in my Patmosian exile.2011, Mark Leach, Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry Patmosian
• Such utterances are not expressions of passion (expressionistic interpretation) only and I give no advice of the utterances (recommendation) (prescriptionistic interpretation).2011, Gerhard Preyer, “Part II: Practical Reasoning”, in Intention and Practical Thought, Humanities Online, →ISBN, 4. Evaluative…. From the entry prescriptionistic
• With a metonymic expression encountered in almost every sixth utterance, an uncontroversial need for dealing with this problem is demonstrated.1999, Udo Hahn, Katja Markert, “On the Formal Distinction between Literal and Figurative Language”, in Progress in Artificial…. From the entry metonymic
• Each utterance was scored on all three phase types.1998, Godfrey T Barrett-Lennard, Carl Rogers' Helping System: Journey & Substance, page 280. From the entry parturiency
• This study examined the effect of intrasentence pause on the temporal organization of the utterances both preceding and following the pause.1998, Kuniko Kakita, “The effect of intrasentence pause on the articulation rate of prepausal and postpausal utterances. Meeting…. From the entry intrasentence
• Deixis is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic things we do with utterances.[1996, George Yule, Pragmatics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry deixis
• Taken together, the Quixotic utterances expose the mind’s nonrational activity.1995, Paul Ilie, The Age of Minerva, page 189. From the entry quixotic
• In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155. From the entry manji
• The only means of discovering alogisms in thought is concrete dialectical analysis of reality reflected in the utterance.1990, Alexander Spirkin, Fundamentals of Philosophy, page 238. From the entry alogism
• Maturity of utterance and sophistication of expression combine in a swingeing, energetic exploration of his situation which he never surpassed.1987, John Baglow, “Uncouth Dilemmas”, in Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self, Kingston, Ont.; Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University…. From the entry swingeing
• The first variate is characterized by second-person utterances that refer to the addressee as being aggressive and uncultural.1984, Han Bonarius, Personality Psychology in Europe: Theoretical and empirical developments, Swets & Zeitlinger, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry uncultural
• His notes show that he regarded the degree of metaphoricness in an utterance as reflecting differences of intent.1980, William Labov, Beatrice S. Weinreich, “[Dictionaries of the Future: A Set of Parameters for Descriptive Semantics] Metaphoricness”…. From the entry metaphoricness
• The revelational trance utterances rely upon the internal evidence of their content apparently inaccessible to ordinary channels of information.1913, J. J., “Spiritualism”, in Paul Monroe, editor, A Cyclopedia of Education, volume five, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page…. From the entry propagandum
• All her utterances, where there is any feeling in them, no matter what, have a poignancy, a vibration which is Brontësque and nothing more.2019 November 29, May Sinclair, The Three Brontës: Unveiling the Literary Legacy of Britain's Beloved Sibling Writers, Good Press. From the entry Brontësque
• She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence.2015, Molly Whittington-Egan, “Preface: Into the Cabinet”, in Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism, [Castle…. From the entry rambunctious
• Once the child began producing multisigned utterances and had analyzed facial behaviors into linguistic components, she no longer recruited these earlier affective abilities.2013, Karen Emmorey, Harlan L. Lane, The Signs of Language Revisited. From the entry multisigned
• In recusative negation the negative element is separable from the rest of the utterance which can act as an autonomous non-negative utterance.2008, Matti Miestamo, Standard Negation. From the entry recusative
• The system may reject the utterance (correctly), misrecognise the semantic value of the utterance, or recognise the correct semantic value of the utterance.2008, Felicia Zhang, Beth Barber, Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language, page 235. From the entry misrecognise
• Bonner contends that while the two might have sounded similar, glossolalia was “spontaneous, unmediated utterance”, while the voces magicae consisted of carefully transmitted, stereotypical formulas.2006, David Edward Aune, Apocalypticism, Prophecy and Magic in Early Christianity, page 412. From the entry voces magicae
• It also demonstrates the multiplicity and uncontrollability of perlocutionary effects associated with utterances, as illustrated by Abigail’s accusation and Tituba’s subsequent ‘confession’.1998, Valerie Lowe, “‘Unhappy’ confessions in The Crucible: a pragmatic explanation”, in Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk…. From the entry unintention

Meaning of utterance

1. noun An act of, or the process of, uttering.
2. noun An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.
3. noun The ability to speak.

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Questions about utterance in a sentence

How do you use utterance in a sentence?

Utterance is used as a noun. For example: “He has a good utterance.”

What is a short sentence with utterance?

“He has a good utterance.”

What does utterance mean?

Utterance means an act of, or the process of, uttering.