Sentence examples for tried to utter from inspiring English sources

First, Alex stumbled over every word he tried to utter, and then he introduced Whitney as his friend instead of his wife.

"This," said the poet Glyn Maxwell when he reviewed one of her early books, "is the sound the confessional hordes have been trying to utter since Lowell".

The Poles try to utter the Lord's Prayer when they realise they are doomed, but none has time to get beyond a line or two.

Mr. Roth imagines Nixon expiring as he tries to utter the word "clear" (as in "Let me make this perfectly...".) And Guston's Nixon is downright cute.

Occasionally the complexity of the sound would suggest a voice, and the repeating figure a verbal phrase that this voice was trying to utter, without being able to pronounce the words clearly.

He knew he had made his fame with routines like the "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," and though his old classmates tried to get him to utter them, he refused.

The men from Bani Walid tried to get him to utter pro-Gaddafi slogans.

The men from Bani Walid tried to get him to utter pro-Qaddafi slogans.

Reporters tried to lure Burress into uttering the word "guarantee," part of a tired, perennial quest to find a bold, Joe Namath-like character to carry the story line.

He said that this had been revealed by Radio 4. I tried to point out that this was utter nonsense, but Sunny refused to have any of it.

In my utter disbelief, I tried to hyper focus on the feeling just to be sure, and with an unwavering sense of realization, I knew it wasn't a bag.