- present participle of utter.
uttering
Example Sentences
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For example, lying isn’t merely uttering a falsehood.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
Without uttering a word, they portray the nurses bustling behind doctors in the hit series "The Pitt," the agents guarding a crime scene in "NCIS" or, like Armella, work as "stand-ins" for stars.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
She has a withering way of never uttering her former fiancé’s name, referring to him as “a man I met when I was 19.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
Pines recalls one young guest uttering to him in distress: "I've never done anything like that before."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Once they’d gone, all the nuns flooded into the baby’s room and surrounded Sister Benedicta, uttering little words of sympathy and admiration, stroking Lyra’s head.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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