utterance
Example Sentences
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All it would take to turn an utterance into a felony, he wrote, was “knowingly telling an undocumented immigrant, ‘I encourage you to reside in the United States.’”
From New York Times
“We’ve been able to understand the utterance ‘go to the kitchen and get me a beer’ for a decade.
From The Verge
“It is an ‘utterance trap’ created by those external forces that do not want to see Africa accelerate development.
From Seattle Times
Some analysts believed that he was no more than a figurehead whose utterances were intended to lure younger jihadists from the Islamic State.
From New York Times
Some will be exasperated by the approach, but I was riveted from the first hushed utterance to the last.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
