Want to use Utterance correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like vocalization.
Utterance in a sentence
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Utterance meaning
- An act of, or the process of, uttering.
- An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.
- The ability to speak.
Synonyms of Utterance
Utterance in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
The Nigerian military said the “unguarded utterance targeted at the Nigerian Military is inciting and instigative.
Place Place deixis, also known as space deixis, concerns itself with the spatial locations relevant to an utterance.
Pentecostals do not require that an interpretation be a literal word-for-word translation of a glossolalic utterance.
Instead, she might say, “Oh yeah” 10 times or some other completely meaningless utterance that lacks any real passion.
NAN reports that an extra-judicial statement is an out-of-court utterance which can be either written or oral.
One look at him and one utterance from his voice dictate otherwise, but that matters not to Vermont Democrats!
London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed.
Although the episode was originally aired uncensored, the "shit" utterance has since been edited out in syndicated reruns.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The defense minister’s office later denied this utterance, but all the horses were already out of the barn.
We can break down those artificial conduits and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance.
Thus, he must play it safe and careful lest he get himself into hot water with a careless utterance, which has happened a lot.
Indexical meaning, on the other hand, is dependent on the context of the utterance and has rules of use.
Power gifts The gifts of power are distinct from the vocal gifts in that they do not involve utterance.
In these situations context serves as the input, but the interpreted utterance also modifies the context, so it is also the output.
He said the utterance was a gladiatorial challenge directed at the judiciary, and by implication, the rest of the democratic polity.
His quiet has been noticed in Washington and on Wall Street, where his every utterance is tracked.
His cruelty was widespread and just an utterance of his name would bring many people to a tremble.
A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication.
Intonation encompasses the changes in pitch, intensity, and speed of an utterance over time.
Common combinations with utterance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the utterance 12×
- an utterance 9×
- utterance is 6×
- utterance of 6×
- utterance to 4×
- every utterance 4×
- utterance from 4×
- utterance that 3×
- of utterance 3×
- given utterance 2×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word utterance. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.