UTTER in a Sentence

Learn UTTER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
243 example sentences for UTTER, such as:
1. This was utterly beyond her comprehension.
2. He found the experience utterly humiliating.
3. The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.
4. The meeting was a complete and utter waste of time.
5. He is far too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of UTTER
utter
 v.  put into circulation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  To her, Ellen represented the utter security that only Heaven or a mother can give.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She did not tell them that it was utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her look so woebegone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She could not bring herself to utter any word to the Yankees, either of pleading, protest or anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  His inexperience, his errors, his utter lack of business judgment and his scruples about close dealing were the same as Hugh's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  Up the stairs he went in the utter darkness, up, up, and she was wild with fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
12  She rose, stretching her arms as if in utter physical weariness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  As she leaned back before him, her lids drooping in utter lassitude, though the first warm draught already tinged her face with returning life, Rosedale was seized afresh by the poignant surprise of her beauty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  But first, be it recorded, that, in this matter, I am not free to utter any fancied measurement I please.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
15  Hurriedly turning, with averted face, he descended into his cabin, leaving the strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter rejection of his so earnest suit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Where once relative health and relative safety were sufficient, we demand absolute health and utter safety against the remotest contingency.
2  He is far too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks.
3  She dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
4  When I ask, how do you know your partner loves you, many people utter the short worded response, 'I just know'.
5  She called the police from her mobile phone as she stood there in utter terror.
6  The meeting was a complete and utter waste of time.
7  Complaints are the greatest offerings that God obtains from human beings, as well as the most faithful prayers human beings might utter to God.
8  The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.
9  Its path to the playoff is dependent on utter chaos; but the teams ahead of it have faced several more.
10  He felt utterly daunted by the prospect of moving to another country.
11  The most utterly lost of all days is that in which you have not once laughed.
12  This was utterly beyond her comprehension.
13  An individual who is passive, utterly apathetic and withdrawn from community life is no true citizen.
14  The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government.
15  He found the experience utterly humiliating.