Sentence examples for We utter from inspiring English sources

We utter these words, in true earnestness, and the utterance becomes an act of charity.

We are attuned in everyday conversation not primarily to the sentences we utter to one another, but to the speech acts that those utterances are used to perform: requests, warnings, invitations, promises, apologies, predictions, and the like.

(Notice that this sort of failure is not supposed to undermine the meaningfulness of the sentences that we utter; for Strawson, sentences are meaningful in and of themselves, independently of the utterance situation. Utterances of meaningful sentences may be true or false or, if here is a presupposition failure, they may be neither).

Why should we utter speech that hurts.

God, who sees all, knows our secrets before we utter them.

It is not just the words we utter but whether we are smiling, sad, angry or frustrated.

The prayers we utter, the food we grow for ourselves in our fields provide an immense and recurring satisfaction.

After speaking with many of my peers, we utter the same frustrations about our current perilous financial situations.

In other words, these humane formulas are a spell, a chant we utter to give ourselves the illusion of potency.

We uttered a quick bonjour before scuttling off.

All that differs is the context in which we uttered this proposition.