Sentence examples for utter for from inspiring English sources

(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).

Dutilleux believed in composition as a quasi-sacred occupation and permitted himself to utter (for him) harsh words about composers who spent more time in front of television cameras than in front of their manuscript paper.

In 2016, the F-word is dirtier than ever, and sadly, "feminism" is even tougher to utter for some than it is to use the curse word.

McCain has long since eaten the words he uttered for Ray Shamie in 1984, and it is a good thing for John Kerry that he has.

Maybe on another night, those words never had to be uttered for Kidd, who has quietly battered his way through the opposition for two seasons with the Nets.

"And if he utters one threat, in the form of an overt threat — which, by the way, he has been uttering for years, and his family has been uttering for years — or if he does anything with respect to Guam, or any place else that's an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast".

By the time the obscenity has been uttered for the umpteenth time we're reacting in a Pavlovian fashion, as a laboratory dog salivates when an electric buzzer has been substituted for a juicy steak.

In fact, this increase of informativeness may just follow from the rationale of pragmatics instead of hai: The more propositions the speaker uttered for a topic, the more information he provided.

"If he utters one threat, which he's been uttering for years... he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast," the president said.

They might be hieroglyphs, frenzied maenads or black serpents with men's heads and menacing tongues – for stinging, perhaps, for uttering untruths, for screaming fury.

Executives show utter contempt for regulators and for telling the truth.