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Example sentences for "uttered"

Lexicographically close words:
utrum; utrumque; utter; utterance; utterances; utterer; utterers; utterest; uttereth; uttering
  1. But the men themselves have outlived all the lies that were uttered concerning them.

  2. It would be blasphemy for Moses to have uttered a text like it.

  3. Do you think Elijah could have uttered such a text as this, when, under the juniper-tree, he prayed that he might die?

  4. Do you know that for four thousand years no prophet or priest or patriarch ever stood up and uttered a text like this?

  5. The voice being inaudible, I started to go just as Vida uttered a low moan, staggered backwards to where I could see her, and fell in a dead faint.

  6. She uttered an unprintable phrase, and drew a butcher knife from the table drawer.

  7. When he felt her alight he sprang erect and, of course, not being able to see out or know what was happening, uttered a few excusable oaths.

  8. In all the confusion we sometimes hear an opinion like that, uttered by Herbert S.

  9. At the shot he uttered a loud, moaning grunt and plunged forward at a heavy gallop, while I raced obliquely down the hill to cut him off.

  10. But they left us as suddenly as they came, and on reflection we could not think of a single encouraging word uttered by them during their stay.

  11. Susanna bent down her crimson face, and uttered a low 'Yes!

  12. Every sentence which he uttered began: 'Susanna, would you be pleased if it were thus?

  13. Something in the way she uttered these words made me laugh--they were so calm an implication that the gentleman in question didn't live up to his principles.

  14. She made no movement and uttered no sound, contriving to give me the sense that she had all at once become perfectly passive, that she somehow declined responsibility.

  15. It was with perceptible defiance that, as he set the emblem on his head, he uttered the traditional words: "God hath given it to me; let him beware who touches it.

  16. The Pope exhibited his grief without restraint, but uttered no remonstrance, and the court of Naples was of course indifferent.

  17. Napoleon's words and mien had at last become so awe-inspiring that the accustomed quip and jest of the old nobility were uttered only in whispers behind the closed doors of their residences in the Faubourg St. Germain.

  18. There is an accepted tradition that he often simultaneously composed and uttered in alternate sentences two different letters, so that two secretaries were busy at the same time in writing papers on different topics.

  19. From 1806 onward every word uttered about the state was apparently overheard by the police, and high and low alike suffered for any indiscretion.

  20. The chief uttered an exclamation of disgust, for it was evident at once that, from the direction that they were taking, the herd would not pass, as he hoped, close by the bushes.

  21. But it was impossible to do this, without giving rise to suspicion; and they had the consolation, at least, of having heard no single word concerning their countrymen uttered in the conversations at the mine.

  22. The governor, who spoke the language fluently, having been there for some years, uttered an harangue reproaching him with his folly, and wickedness, in wantonly declaring war against the Portuguese.

  23. She was a country girl, not from Northbury, but from some still more rusticated spot, and she thought she was telling a frightful lie, and blushed and trembled while she uttered it.

  24. Bertram, who was walking very close to Bee, stumbled against her, and uttered a smothered oath.

  25. When he stopped the chief and all the warriors together uttered a deep exclamation of approval.

  26. After a few anxious minutes, Robert uttered a shout of joy as he saw by the lightning's flash a cove directly ahead of them with shores at a fair slope.

  27. The savages uttered a shout of grief and rage over the loss of the warrior, but the besieged were silent.

  28. Boucher, again as white as death, looked down hastily, and then uttered a fierce oath.

  29. Tayoga presently put his fingers to his lips and uttered a long mellow whistle.

  30. He knew that his words uttered now would soon reach the ears of Jean de Mézy, and it was worth while to be considered a miraculous swordsman.

  31. He uttered a war whoop so piercing and fierce that Robert was startled.

  32. When the blade came back it was red and the young Onondaga uttered a tremendous war whoop that rang and echoed in the confines of the stony hollow.

  33. The savage uttered a cry, shot forward and fell into the stream.

  34. And Leonard uttered a cry of admiration which thrilled through the heart of Richard Avenel.

  35. In their retinue came Ursula, an Italian femme-de-chambre, a woman whose name is never uttered in the pueblo but with a curse.

  36. One stroke of the oar, and I was close to Rafael: he uttered a cry as he perceived me, but was too much exhausted to speak.

  37. I quickened my steps, which she observing, uttered a slight scream, and darted swiftly off again, moaning and sobbing as she ran.

  38. Although the words were spoken as correctly as I have written them, they were uttered with a foreign accent; and, hazarding the stroke, I answered him in French by apologizing for the noise.

  39. The last words were uttered with a tremulous emotion, and on turning toward him I saw his eyes swimming with tears, and perceived that some strong feeling was working within him.

  40. The King is dead," uttered one of the men, almost with awe.

  41. Fenton had heard that the King was a charming man, and His Majesty's personality made the few words of welcome which he uttered well worth remembrance.

  42. He had not seriously thought otherwise, of course, but every word that Varden uttered widened the distance that yawned between a Canadian of no particular rank, albeit a millionaire, and the semi-regal position of a Balkan princess.

  43. The self-assurance was so openly reflected in his attitude and in every word he uttered that the half-formed resolution in her mind became crystallised on the moment into a fixed determination.

  44. Its exordium was uttered on the ninth of October at Manchester, and its peroration was pronounced on the twentieth of the same month in Exeter Hall.

  45. The girl turned chalky white as he began slowly to press the bullet backward along its trail, but she uttered no sound, only a deep intake of breath that was half a sob, and the cold moisture of sickening pain stood in beads on her face.

  46. Captain Pike uttered a profane and lurid word or two concerning Mr. Conrad, and stated he'd be glad when Billie was of age.

  47. Maybe so, maybe not," uttered the Indian child, if such she could be called after the super-woman initiative of that forbidding trail.

  48. It was the first time he had uttered her name and there was a low terrible note in his voice, half choked by smothered rage.

  49. He rose and stood watching, but uttered no word.

  50. Perez awoke to glare at his false major-domo, but uttered no words.

  51. And then she looked long and uttered a brief Indian word of surprise.

  52. Bonaparte treats Europe as a pirate does a captured vessel," said Count Rostopchin, repeating a phrase he had uttered several times before.

  53. Oh, yes," said Petya, nodding at the first words Denisov uttered as if he understood it all, though he really did not understand anything of it.

  54. Now thou hast seen the lesser light," uttered a voice.

  55. During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head.

  56. We are so accustomed to that idea and have become so used to it that the question: why did six hundred thousand men go to fight when Napoleon uttered certain words, seems to us senseless.

  57. He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses.

  58. But after the exclamation of surprise that had escaped from Vereshchagin he uttered a plaintive cry of pain, and that cry was fatal.

  59. When she saw his Russian face, and by his walk and the first words he uttered recognized him as a man of her own class, she glanced at him with her deep radiant look and began speaking in a voice that faltered and trembled with emotion.

  60. And Princess Mary uttered aloud the caressing word he had said to her on the day of his death.

  61. Vous voyez le malheureux Mack," he uttered in a broken voice.

  62. But scarcely had Pierre uttered these words before he was attacked from three sides.

  63. In the stillness around him his slowly uttered words were distinctly heard.

  64. The man uttered some words in the girl's ear, and then hurried her on more quickly, at the same time glancing furtively around.

  65. He had uttered that most ugly word "blackmail.

  66. I sat staring at the stranger, but uttered no word, for I was reflecting deeply.

  67. I know not what words I uttered in reply.

  68. A feverish strength possessed me, and I uttered cries of frantic joy.

  69. Scarcely had I looked round, when I uttered a cry of horror.

  70. All the people kept mute and did not dare to move their lips; for, if it were not true, he who uttered a single word would pay well for it.

  71. The losses and expenses which he caused to the ambassadors of kings, the owners of private ships, by this detention cannot be estimated; nor can I relate the complaints which all uttered regarding this unexpected action.

  72. As Frank made his hasty examination, he uttered a cry of surprise.

  73. The savage uttered a piercing cry, threw up his hands with a despairing gesture, and then fell heavily backwards to the grassy plain.

  74. The driver uttered a yell of rage, and made a luckless leap forward.

  75. The spirited creature uttered a scream and sprang forward like a rocket, and in less than two minutes Pomp was safely in the grove.

  76. Armed with a weapon in the use of which he was skilled, the Irishman uttered his wild native yell and went boldly into the rumpus.

  77. She would let other people peep for her--that is her way of doing things she shouldn't," the last words uttered with withering contempt.

  78. But, as he uttered the words, the smile faded out of Mary's face and a white, wearied look crept over it.

  79. The poor thing swooned away as I uttered these words, and it was a long time before she came to again.

  80. He thought, however, that sleeves should be cut loose for knives when the pockets were not too small for pistols; but he uttered no word.

  81. She uttered this happily, with a little note of triumph and another of her smiles that seemed to illuminate the universe.

  82. This, uttered in a challenging tone, evoked a sob from Humpy, who announced that he "felt like" he was going to die.

  83. But the martyrs of Yazd, at the onslaught of the foe, and under the tyrant’s sword, uttered not even an unseemly word.

  84. However, they often become the object of calumny and slander uttered by some foolish people.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uttered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    enunciated; express; lingual; linguistic; oral; parol; pronounced; said; sounded; speech; spoken; unwritten; uttered; verbal; vocal; voiced