give utterance

Example Sentences

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To assert that an increase in tariff of a cent a pound causes an advance of 6 to 8 cents a pound in the price of sugar is to give utterance to clotted nonsense!'

From Time Magazine Archive

I cannot give utterance to my feelings of shame and degradation in realizing that we did so little to save these desperate and brave men.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did not give utterance to this conviction: it was enough to feel it.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A half-smothered giggle, to which no self-respecting ghost would have stooped to give utterance, followed her.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline

Queen Margaret, unable to believe it was her dumb child's voice she had heard give utterance to such melodiously thrilling notes, rose also from her chair, and cast an eager inquiring glance upon Eudæmon.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa