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Example sentences for "utterly"

Lexicographically close words:
utterer; utterers; utterest; uttereth; uttering; uttermost; utterness; utters; utuntur; uur
  1. Even then Peter, utterly miserable, had refused to capitulate, when to capitulate would have meant the surrender of the house in the Siebensternstrasse.

  2. From that, if she did not utterly shrink from him, to his love for her.

  3. So he took a taxicab, and being by this time utterly reckless of cost let it stand while he interviewed the Boyers.

  4. But as a matter of fact he reversed utterly his order of procedure.

  5. And here Tommy went off in an animated, but, I regret to say, utterly untruthful and untrustworthy account of the habits of California fauna, until he was interrupted by Johnson.

  6. Ten minutes more and the landscape was utterly blotted out; simultaneously the wind died away, and a death-like silence stole over sea and shore.

  7. And moreover, Felix, to whom it was necessary to speak, was exceedingly angry and vexed, and utterly incredulous of there being any good in the character that could be so fickle, if not deceitful and hypocritical.

  8. He was too utterly miserable for anger with Fulbert, but only showed a sort of broken-hearted forgiveness, which made Fulbert say in desperation to Lance, 'I wish you would just fall upon me.

  9. I do not know how it is to be, except that it is utterly impossible for the present.

  10. If Wilmet had not known how deeply both Geraldine and her father had resented what Mr. Rugg had meant as a little friendly gloss to save terror before a painful operation, she would have been utterly at a loss.

  11. Robina got no more out of Geraldine, whose fears at that moment were in the form of utterly denying themselves.

  12. The pleasure was enhanced by the affectionate simplicity of his letter, the outcome of so good a heart, greatly in love, but very conscientious, and utterly unpresuming on his wealth, but showing all his old affection and reverence for Felix.

  13. It could not be helped,' continued the Bishop, 'but the examiners said they felt it a great cruelty when they saw how utterly astray distress rendered him.

  14. To this Fernando had likewise made up his mind; and Mr. Bruce, who had never seen him before, thought he looked utterly unfit for a long journey and sea voyage, so that the uncle had taken nothing by his application to the law.

  15. Utterly himself unknown he Should be, who not knows Masoni.

  16. For a fashionable woman, for example, the duties of life too frequently consist in an unbroken round of trifles; she is utterly ignorant of what it means to take pains.

  17. Religious sentiment properly so called must not be confounded with the instinct for metaphysics, the two are utterly distinct.

  18. He loved money, and he was utterly unscrupulous as to the means by which he obtained it.

  19. But this very natural remedy would be utterly repugnant to his notions.

  20. He nourished no hatred either against the Pope or any other person; he admitted the system of the priests, although utterly intolerable to the country, to be perfectly logical in itself.

  21. Our unfortunate engineers were utterly at a loss for the means of effecting an opening.

  22. They seemed to be utterly without curiosity; the warriors put aside their bows and lay down to sleep; the old squaw hurried off to pick up her bundle of fuel; even the papooses were silent and stupid.

  23. When he could see her no longer, nor the ruin which sheltered her, and which suddenly seemed to him a paradise, he dropped his head between his hands, utterly unmanned.

  24. How is it possible, she often thought, that such a brief sweep of water should carry him so utterly away?

  25. She may begin to dread him, or begin to like him more than before; but she cannot remain utterly indifferent to him.

  26. The Apaches, who had probably made their cruel journey without flasks, seemed for the moment insatiable and utterly reckless.

  27. The moderate members of the committee of public safety thought that the convention would resume all its power: it was utterly subdued.

  28. When we moved onward again, however, his mood seemed utterly changed.

  29. But he merely stood there, coat half off, looking utterly mystified.

  30. He had arrived at that nefarious sheet, the Sterling Democrat, and was leaning back in his chair reading the utterly preposterous lucubrations of Brother Kendrick, which he always saved to the last to give a final fillip to his spirits.

  31. For two people so utterly unlike, Fergus and Nort got an extraordinary amount of amusement out of each other.

  32. One bright forenoon in April, one of those utterly perfect spring days in which April appears in the coquettish garb of June, I saw Nort suddenly start up from his work, seize his coat, and shoot out of the door.

  33. He laughed ruefully, threw back his head impatiently and utterly refused to discuss that subject.

  34. No, I'd order five thousand--and utterly obliterate him!

  35. She had sustained another fearful disappointment, and she saw that Bourhill had utterly failed to work the charm on Liz which Teen herself experienced more and more every day.

  36. They are utterly scandalised,' she cried, her sweet face suffused with red.

  37. But this did not make him happy--ah, how utterly inadequate is wealth to the making of happiness how many have bitterly proved!

  38. His mother had not received his information quite as he expected, and he felt for the moment utterly 'down on his luck.

  39. Really, George, that Miss Peck is utterly useless as a chaperon.

  40. Gladys perceived that Teen was determined to be utterly loyal to her friend, and admired her for it.

  41. When did it dawn upon you that even a handsome man is utterly dependent on his tailor?

  42. She was utterly alone, the only sign of life being a flock of sheep in the distance, trotting on sedately before a tall shepherd and a collie dog.

  43. Then Mina threw herself back in her chair, and laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks--a proceeding which utterly perplexed Gladys.

  44. He was, indeed, utterly sick at heart; all incentive to push on seemed to be taken from him, and the daily round was gone through mechanically, simply because it waited his attention on every hand.

  45. Because they refuse to view things as they are, but rather as they should be, and are utterly reckless as to results and consequences.

  46. Onward, and upward their flight; blind and deaf--utterly insensible to all surrounding objects.

  47. I utterly despair--I have no hope that my labors will meet the approbation of ultraists, North, or South.

  48. Four millions of human beings without property or character, and utterly devoid of all sense of honor and shame, or any other restraining motive or influence whatever!

  49. He may be utterly incapable of making provision for his own wants.

  50. Then in one room her little child, in another her mother, utterly broken by illness.

  51. By the way, you have made me quite proud of my chapter on Hybridism, I had utterly forgotten how good it appears when dressed up in your article.

  52. Perhaps no hero-worship was ever more unselfish, more utterly loyal, or more fully rewarded.

  53. I fear that I shall have utterly wearied you with my scribbling and bad handwriting.

  54. He entered Cambridge, half-educated, utterly untrained, with no knowledge of men or of books.

  55. He was severe, as it seemed often to those who knew him best, unduly severe with himself, and often described himself as utterly agnostic when possibly 'bewildered' would have better described him.

  56. No, Madame, it is utterly impossible for you to wear silks and satins.

  57. Surely a little modern dramatic polish might be used to furbish up utterly idiotic old-fashioned stage-business of this ancient Italian Opera?

  58. So the morning passed with frequent rests, for Mr. Garrabrant knew better than utterly to weary his command in the beginning.

  59. As Mr. Garrabrant called this out, and the two astonished scoundrels sat there, utterly unable to collect their senses, such was the complete surprise, through the doorway tumbled a crowd that hurled itself upon them.

  60. Blue-Eyed Boy makes for it, utterly ignorant of what it is.

  61. Until that moment the little woman did not know how utterly deserted she was.

  62. A whale-boat from New London, her seamen sworn to inviolable secrecy, was ordered to be in the river at a given point, on a given night, for a service of which the men were utterly ignorant.

  63. I hastened to assure Mr. Rock that both Alice and I knew him to be utterly incapable of any word or deed that could by any means be misconstrued into an impertinence.

  64. With an anguish which I am utterly incapable of describing, I saw my marigolds and mignonette and roses and peonies and dahlias and pansies and other leafy pets wither and droop and shrivel.

  65. The scenery is utterly spoilt by these ugly eyesores.

  66. She picked up his hat from where it lay on the melodeon and fingered it a bit, smiling at him in the ingenuous manner that was utterly disarming.

  67. Sometimes he wondered if there was another forest in the land as utterly lost as this, as little known.

  68. The thatched cottage seemed utterly without life, windows blank and no sign of any domestic proceedings.

  69. I remember coming to the conclusion that perhaps the people I'd left behind weren't so utterly unreasonable after all.

  70. His life seemed to have been a mistake, so utterly had he failed to impress himself on the public.

  71. Berlioz was utterly ruined, and he fled from France in the dead of winter as from a pestilence.

  72. They are beautiful music, but utterly unflavored with the vis comica.

  73. The subject was keenly debated by journalists and pamphleteers, and the press groaned with essays to prove that Rameau was the first musician in Europe, though his works were utterly unknown outside of France.

  74. Their popularity was such that Verdi's time was absorbed for several years in their production at various opera-houses, utterly precluding new compositions.

  75. To say that I have spread reports against either is, therefore, as unjust as it is utterly false.

  76. But when I see such as you are ruined for ever, and utterly insensible of it, I must [speak out].

  77. Her mother stopped as short as if there had been something in her tone to set the limit the more utterly for being unstudied.

  78. It's because I do trust you so utterly that I haven't been able any longer to keep my hands off you.

  79. Oh I know you want to, but you appear to me--in your perfect good faith of course--utterly at sea.

  80. To this period belong the numerous portraits of himself and Saskia, alone or together, most of which are characterized by a barbaric splendour of costume, utterly different from the profusion of Rubens, but far more intense.

  81. Nothing more utterly derogatory," he writes, "both to the dignity of art and to the nature of the subject can be imagined.

  82. I never felt so utterly insignificant in my life.

  83. You remember, however, that I gave you permission to secure help if you utterly failed.

  84. And so, as I said in the beginning, in less than a month the whole atmosphere of that hotel had been changed by the influence of one boy; and the only one utterly unconscious of this was Rob himself.

  85. She loved, and the man was utterly unworthy of her love!

  86. Dissenters began every-where with showing how fallen was the Church, how unworthy were her ministers; but Methodism began every-where with showing her hearers how fallen they themselves were, and how utterly unworthy.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "utterly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutely; all; altogether; clean; clear; clearly; completely; dead; downright; entirely; essentially; exactly; extremely; fairly; flat; fully; fundamentally; head; hook; immeasurably; indefinitely; infinitely; just; most; outright; perfectly; plumb; purely; quite; radically; root; roundly; slap; stark; stick; thoroughly; through; totally; unconditionally; utterly; well; wholesome


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    utterly destroyed; utterly impossible; utterly unable