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utter as in: utter stupidity
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She suffered utter devastation when her child died in the accident.
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The company is in danger of utter collapse.
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She is utterly insane!
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Which best describes her attitude toward him:
- affection but not genuine love
- respect but not utter deference
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I am utterly astonished!
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"I don't know this word," I said. "What does it mean?" There was silence. Not a hush, not a muting of the noise, but utter, almost violent silence.
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Still there were no words, and when Liesel found the courage to face her, the woman wore an expression not of reproach, but utter distance.
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Cinna was right about the minimal makeup, we both look more attractive but utterly recognizable.
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Behind it was a space of utter darkness.
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I felt utterly alone.
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- You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. (source)
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I stared at him, utterly speechless.
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But to Harry's and Ron's utter amazement, stage one of the operation went just as smoothly as Hermione had said.
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- All Lev knows is that someday soon the world will suffer a small part of the loss and the emptiness and the utter disillusionment he feels inside. (source)
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To ensure that men felt utterly helpless, he changed the manner in which he demanded to be addressed each day, beating anyone who guessed wrong.
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- In response, the pup lay utterly still. (source)
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But laced through it all was the dark feeling of utter hopelessness, like the world had ended for him, had been wiped from his memory and replaced with something awful.
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- Tally closed her eyes, which made no difference in the utter darkness. (source)
- An absolute and utter hopelessness overwhelmed him. (source)
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She seemed utterly alone, the silence and darkness impenetrable forever.
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- So far, things were utterly dull: nobody had thundered, there were no arguments between opposing counsel, there was no drama; a grave disappointment to all present, it seemed. (source)
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With that threat, he spins me around to face him and he shakes my shoulders, glaring at me with utter disappointment.
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There was utter silence.
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He looked over his shoulder as Jack had done at the close ways behind him and glanced swiftly round to confirm that he was utterly alone.
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There was utter silence in the room as Rachel and both her daughters turned to stare at Kit.
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Have no fear now—we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!
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I've been in an utter state of confusion today.
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'It's utterly impossible,' said Veruca Salt.
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(With utter gentleness—) Now—whose little old angry man are you?
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Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.†
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- Mike Bowman felt like a hero when they finally reached the beach: a two-mile crescent of white sand, utterly deserted.† (source)
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He had the feeling of sitting in utter loneliness.
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He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.
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- I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic, and for a moment I was sorry I'd ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn. (source)
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We are all utterly at a loss.
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It was bad enough to be singled out for punishment from among a dozen equally guilty ones; it was worse still to be sent to sit with a boy, but that that boy should be Gilbert Blythe was heaping insult on injury to a degree utterly unbearable.
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All he knew was that he was safe from his enemy, the sea, and that utter weariness was on him.
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They were new dogs, utterly transformed by the harness.
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I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands, all the papers relating to this monster, and the more I have studied, the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out.
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That is the only word to describe it; it was so cruel, and so utterly not to be foreseen.
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He kept vigils, likewise, night after night, sometimes in utter darkness, sometimes with a glimmering lamp, and sometimes, viewing his own face in a looking-glass, by the most powerful light which he could throw upon it.
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I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness.
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I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion;
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- Now he was the master soldier, and he was completely, utterly alone.† (source)
- We wondered how my father had managed to spend several years attending school in America yet remain so utterly befuddled by Americans.† (source)
- For the Red Guards, heaping abuse upon victims in those two latter mental stages was utterly boring.† (source)
- But as he delved back into that paragraph's prose, the context seemed utterly unfamiliar; as did the paragraphs that immediately preceded it.† (source)
- Few of even my closest friends understood how utterly hopeless my life would have been without Mamaw and Papaw.† (source)
- The party tried in particular to impress on youth the need to stand together, to challenge the government, which was utterly failing to denounce Hitler and offer protection to all Slovaks.† (source)
- The next day was a precise copy of the one before: the sun and the heat and, worst of all to Salva's mind, a landscape that was utterly unchanged.† (source)
- I was broken, dead-eyed, with my night bag still on my shoulder and the utterly useless folded map in my pocket.† (source)
- Then people at the pool made it utterly disgusting.† (source)
- Darnell's despair, his sadness in recognizing that they could do whatever they wanted to him with impunity, was utterly disheartening.† (source)
- He looked utterly fed up.† (source)
- How utterly unlike me.† (source)
- Langdon was braced for the words, and yet they still sounded utterly ridiculous.† (source)
- Upstairs, after he has heard Frau Elena go to the toilet and climb into her own bed and the house has become utterly quiet, Werner counts to one hundred.† (source)
- She was utterly trapped.† (source)
- The noise got louder—a scuttling sort of a scuffling noise, and while Nick Farthing had no idea what it was, he was utterly, completely certain that whatever it would turn out to be would be the most scary terrible thing he had ever—would ever—encounter ... He woke up screaming.† (source)
- I never realized how utterly silent Mars is.† (source)
- Manufacturers tell us the like to test-market their products in Savannah—toothpastes and detergents and the like—because Savannah is utterly impervious to outside influence.† (source)
- They were dangerous egomaniacs and utterly convinced that Japanese women worshiped them for their pale skin and for their ambitious courage.† (source)
- Jared positioned each of them at a desk and the room, which had been utterly empty for weeks, was nearly full in a matter of minutes.† (source)
- D., Georgia State UniversityYou are utterly incorrect...How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind?† (source)
- As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.† (source)
- When he engaged me in conversation about this problem, I tried to sound concerned and helpful, but all the time I was imagining them naked somewhere, relieved to be alone, giddy and giggling and utterly sufficient to themselves.† (source)
- 'I'm sure Detective Ducharme will make this utterly painless,' the judge said.† (source)
- The acts themselves were unclear—for example, a woman bent over a man for some undetermined purpose, as if she were about to do some violence on an utterly helpless cadaver.† (source)
- Now it was utterly foreign.† (source)
- I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me.† (source)
- Theon ignored him utterly, but there was nothing new in that.† (source)
- I was, for the first time in my life, completely and utterly at a loss.† (source)
- Utterly baffled now, the children held their tongues.† (source)
- She was utterly sincere, and it seemed to have some effect.† (source)
- Completely and utterly failed.† (source)
- When he took his place at the dining table, calm, affable, utterly certain, a crisis in the kitchen became no more than a humorous sketch; without him, it was a drama that clutched the heart.† (source)
- By now Baby Kochamma sounded utterly convincing.† (source)
- Silently the aircar coasted through the cold darkness, a single soft glow of light that was utterly alone in the deep Magrathean night.† (source)
- His life was going to change utterly.† (source)
- I guess to an outsider it might have seemed strange, but to us it felt utterly right.† (source)
- I just want to have a little fun before I...(And then he burps loudly) Okay, so that's utterly horrible.† (source)
- That said, at a luncheon a few months ago he was regaling the table with an utterly scurrilous story about Fred Astaire which I don't feel can possibly be true.† (source)
- It was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage.† (source)
- She is utterly helpless.† (source)
- I'm doing my best not to seem utterly terrified, but it's difficult to stay calm when you have to strip down practically to your underwear in front of giants equipped with automatic assault weapons.† (source)
- And suddenly my behaviour seemed to me utterly baffling.† (source)
- There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.† (source)
- Eragon closed his eyes for a moment, utterly weary.† (source)
- In part it was her eyes: utterly flat and indifferent.† (source)
- The streets at the far end of the village had been so utterly destroyed by the earthquake which drove out the last villagers that Capricorn had not had them rebuilt.† (source)
- And I would be utterly other than I am.† (source)
- The chief may have bought the man's first point, but he disregarded his second point, as it was utterly stupid.† (source)
- His favorite human was at ground level in the prone position, utterly defenseless.† (source)
- As most of the townsfolk were gathered around the public house, I doubted anyone had seen it except for me, the mayor, the constable, and the old man's donkeys who stood placidly in their harness, utterly unperturbed.† (source)
- General Tottori had sometimes pressed his lips against mine when he was my danna; but it had been utterly passionless.† (source)
- The very first night there I had a dream that utterly discouraged me.† (source)
- "Bella, you are utterly absurd," he said, his low voice cold.† (source)
- Whatever love exists between them is an utterly private, uncelebrated thing.† (source)
- Ma was utterly confused about all but one thing: Jesus.† (source)
- At the same time, there was another part of me that was utterly engaged in the theater of the moment.† (source)
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utter as in: utter a complaint
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I was too shocked to utter a complaint.
utter = say something with the voice
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She wanted to warn him, but fear kept her from uttering a sound.
uttering = making a sound with the voice
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The decision was made before I could utter an opinion.
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He doesn't utter a word.
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I never uttered the words "I'm from Idaho" until I'd left it.
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She did not have time, for Viktor Chemmel was on top of Rudy before she could utter a word.
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Abuelita and Mama uttered no words that anyone could understand.
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But even as I utter the words, I feel my insides contracting with anxiety and guilt at the sight of her...
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utter = say with the voice
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You take one or two minutes to utter just one sentence.
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- [said of the sociopath, Assef] Of course, none of them dared utter it to his face unless they wished to suffer the same fate as the poor kid who had unwittingly inspired that nickname when he had fought Assef over a kite and ended up fishing his right ear from a muddy gutter. (source)
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He had been woefully unprepared to lead an Arctic expedition, and upon returning to England, he was known as the Man Who Ate His Shoes, yet the sobriquet was uttered more often with awe than with ridicule.
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For the latter, he came up with lies and practiced until he could utter them smoothly.
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But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered.
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It had been my experience for nearly a year that uttering the words "female trouble" could get me into places I wanted to go and out of places I didn't.
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Haunted by last night's dream, Theo jogged behind his partner halfway to the high school before he uttered a breathless "Stop!"
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He's never uttered a sound?
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uttered = said (or made a sound) with the voice
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"You'll know soon enough," we heard our mother utter softly, under her breath, as she tossed the magazines aside, although later she would deny that this was true.
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How had she uttered something so horrible?
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- The bass drum went boom with every sentence Mrs. Merriweather uttered. (source)
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As soon as I see the stars above my head, there isn't even enough time to count one of them before my eyes roll back in my head and I'm holding back sounds that I'm too embarrassed to utter.
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utter = make (with the voice)
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Ekwefi uttered a scream and sprang to her feet.
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uttered = made with the voice
- The savage stopped fifteen yards away and uttered his cry. (source)
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"She has been insisting to my father that you are a witch. She says no respectable woman could keep afloat in the water like that."
"How dare she!" Kit flared, indignant as much at his tone as at the dread word he uttered so carelessly. (source)uttered = said
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'Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge,' Sir Philip Sidney said.
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Mary utters again unintelligibly.
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utters = makes a sound with the voice
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Never have they uttered a single word about the burden we must be, never have they complained that we're too much trouble.
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He went on to recite a host of learned titbits that he was amazed he had time to utter considering the usual efficiency and speed of The Cat when piercing some poor soul to the quick.
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It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer.
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uttering = saying with the voice
- An apparently disembodied voice spoke to us all by name, uttering certain precise accusations against us. (source)
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After a few seconds Lenina's eyes flinched away; she uttered a nervous little laugh, tried to think of something to say and couldn't.
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I became aware now of a hollow, wailing sound which issued incessantly from the garage, a sound which as we got out of the coupe and walked toward the door resolved itself into the words "Oh, my God!" uttered over and over in a gasping moan.
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uttered = said with the voice
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...and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace,
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Her knees trembled, her heart fluttered, a horrible faintness came over her; not a word could she utter, and the next moment she would have fled from the platform despite the humiliation which, she felt, must ever after be her portion if she did so.
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All the talk we ever have heard
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- She was pleading with him, in broken phrases, painfully uttered: "Have faith in me!" (source)
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She uttered a cry of joy: "True!"
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Yet, uttering his long-restrained emotions so vehemently as he did, his words here offered her the very point of circumstances in which to interpose what she came to say.
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uttering = saying with the voice
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...he died as he lived, uttering, with his dying groans, bitter curses and horrid oaths.
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uttering = saying (aloud)
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Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.
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uttering = making with the voice
- They went into the lessons, never uttering a word about the other thing.† (source)
- Just before uttering his first One that, Mishka had leapt to his feet and now paced the Count's little study from corner to corner, as if formulating his ideas in the privacy of his own apartment.† (source)
- But none of them had ever uttered such unreflective tripe.† (source)
- Mary looked down at her son and uttered the words she had never said before and never thought she would have to say.† (source)
- The defense lawyer had filed no written pleadings and uttered no more than twelve transcript lines at sentencing.† (source)
- She seemed weary, as if she had uttered the same words many times that day already.† (source)
- Professor Trelawney, however, did not sit down; her enormous eyes had been roving around the table, and she suddenly uttered a kind of soft scream.† (source)
- His eyes were shining brighter than they ever had, and he was still smiling like he'd just uttered a joke.† (source)
- Then he uttered the words every flight director hopes never to say: "GC, Flight.† (source)
- I smiled and uttered pleasantries but barely heard a word that either of the two were saying; my eyes were darting around the room for signs of Chablis.† (source)
- The girl, it turned out, was an unwitting intermediary between two communities, a human sacrifice who allowed the festivities to go forward with no uttered ill will.† (source)
- I had not uttered a single syllable in my five sessions as a student, and I had no intention of doing so.† (source)
- She almost said "plankton" and was happy to have caught the slur before uttering it.† (source)
- Of course, I knew what it was that had changed in him; he had found his lost faith—he spoke with absolute belief in every word he uttered; therefore, he never stuttered.† (source)
- I flashed to my grandfather's ashen face, his lips just barely moving, uttering those very words.† (source)
- She could see from the way he moved that his right arm was still troubling him, yet he uttered not a word of complaint.† (source)
- He had a terrified look on his face, as if the guy had touched him with a white-hot poker, but then he shook his head and looked around, uttering the words "I can hear again."† (source)
- 9 BONES I'd scarcely uttered the words before Kate was walking across the beach, away from the ship, away from the other passengers, toward the forest.† (source)
- He can sense my exhaustion without my uttering a word.† (source)
- It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus.† (source)
- They focused so intently on eating that they uttered not a word.† (source)
- The sound was a metallic squeak, a human-as-machine breaking down, uttering last sounds before the whole engine locks.† (source)
- The chilling words didn't have half as much impact on me as the familiar voice that uttered them.† (source)
- She could not hold back the tears as she uttered the words that would send me away from her.† (source)
- A glance was exchanged—the heft of which I recognized instantly from our shoplifting days, when we had been able to say Let's go or here he comes without uttering a word —and Boris, seeming flustered, ran his hands through his hair and looked at me intently.† (source)
- Most of them can be uttered in less than one-quarter of a second (for instance, 4 is "si" and 7 "qi").† (source)
- Her mother utters her name three times: Lourdes.† (source)
- The man takes a single breath, and utters one word: "Run."† (source)
- I want to write down every exaggeration, half truth, fib, and bald-facer he utters, so I can gird my fury against him.† (source)
- Someone led him back to his room, uttering consolations.† (source)
- "Cockerell, you will cut out the tongue of anyone who utters the slightest sound while Silvertongue is reading," said Capricorn, and Cockerell drew a knife from his belt and looked along the row of men as if already selecting his first victim.† (source)
- We kept the location a secret; real names and places could not be uttered over the telephone.† (source)
- She sat next to me without uttering a word.† (source)
- Kris uttered an angry growl.† (source)
- I crawled along these braided strands, clutching other vines for support and uttering prayers i had not said since my boyhood.† (source)
- Jenny was a few steps ahead of me, and when she opened the laundry-room door she stopped short and uttered, "Oh my God."† (source)
- When she too went out of the door she uttered a shriek of horror, but then immediately, as if overcome by the depth of her sympathy, went over to the dead woman, took five hundred zloty from her own handbag and gave the money to Kohn, who was just behind her.† (source)
- His eyes were gloriously intense as he uttered that last sentence, his voice smoldering.† (source)
- And so, instead of saying Ashoke's name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as "Are you listening to me?† (source)
- I don't know if he's answering voices or simply uttering his every thought.† (source)
- She uttered three words.† (source)
- In talking, he has the appearance of candor, becomes pathetic at times when pathos will serve him best, uttering his words with a quaver in his voice, often accompanied by a moistened eye, then turning quickly with a determined and forceful method of speech, as if indignation or resolution had sprung out of tender memories that had touched his heart.† (source)
- He was studying that big Catholic-looking cross around the neck, and probably thinking over all we'd heard about Brother Fowles going off the deep end, plus every curse word ever uttered by the parrot.† (source)
- Hoarse, huckstering; they were uttered in a coarse imitation of his father's voice, but it wasn't Daddy.† (source)
- These same words had been uttered centuries ago ....by King Solomon as he mourned a murdered friend.† (source)
- Since Plato is putting his own philosophy in Socrates' mouth, we cannot be sure that the words he speaks in the dialogues were ever actually uttered by him.† (source)
- They will attack you as if you were human' "Celeste shuddered, uttering something in contempt, an aristocrat speaking of vulgar cousins who bear the same name.† (source)
- Without uttering a peep, the kid had become the talk of the school.† (source)
- As he drew, he uttered some strange words to the god of healing.† (source)
- "I need help," I said, uttering a phrase which must have shed an especially glaring light on the obvious.† (source)
- On rainy afternoons, his tongue loosened by the pleasure of having his feathers drenched, he uttered phrases from another time, which he could not have learned in the house and which led one to think that he was much older than he appeared.† (source)
- The noose was cutting so hard into Blomkvist's throat that he was incapable of uttering a word.† (source)
- "It is God who has sinned against me!" his voice thundered, and we fell back in horror at the blasphemy he uttered.† (source)
- While howls and thumps rang throughout the house, tall Henry leaned in close to Palmer and softly uttered, "Panther's a cat.† (source)
- He smiles, paraphrasing the punch line from the old joke about the kid who went through his entire life without uttering a word.† (source)
- Taa also had a penchant for uttering cryptic one-liners about my father, usually after she'd downed a couple of shots of Brugal.† (source)
- And then I gasped and began to cry, and he embraced me and uttered promises that we would be lovers for ten thousand lifetimes, and I vowed the same, until we heard a loud "Shhhh!"† (source)
- Amos took off his coat and uttered a magic word.† (source)
- "Maybe you'll find a new Betty," I said, but the moment I uttered her name Zu stopped packing and shook her head.† (source)
- When Bryn said that, uttered out loud the thing that to my never-ending shame I sometimes felt, I'd fallen in love with her a little bit.† (source)
- One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.† (source)
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and uttered such a deal of stinking breath
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