Sentence examples for utterance might from inspiring English sources

Instead, focusing on chips as a shortcut or to correct a tricky utterance might be more valuable.

The approach lets a computer hold a more meaningful and coherent conversation by providing a way to deal with the multiple meanings that an utterance might convey.

She talks in eloquent, formal sentences, with nary an um or er, as if even one careless utterance might betray her.

As if asking you to consider that your friendly utterance might come across as thoughtless is a betrayal of the holiday spirit.

His most mundane utterance might be carried live on cable and the Internet from the Rose Garden, even as the major broadcast television networks often balked at giving him the time to address the nation that his predecessors routinely claimed.

"I'm coming to despise the character of Stewart Lee," he tells us at one point, and there are intriguing hints that, for once, that utterance might contain a shred of the truth.

Some utterances might be interpreted as having more than one of the perlocutions listed above (e.g., an ostensibly supportive comment such as 'How have the Outpatient clinics coped with the increase in activity?' might also be a veiled request to diagnose the trust's current activity to assess whether the increase was sustainable).

If this is the kind of utterance that might send most retailers reaching for the hemlock, it should be pointed out that the stock in Ms. Heizer's closets runs to Azzedine Alaïa, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel.

Above all, there was the honest, searching, truthful, authentic Kafka of whom Elias Canetti observed, in "Kafka's Other Trial," his beautiful book about Kafka's letters to his on-again, off-again fiancée, Felice Bauer, "There are writers, admittedly only a few, who are so entirely themselves that any utterance one might presume to make about them must seem barbarous".

And it is Maryjohnny who gives wonderfully casual utterance to what might be the motto of Mr. McDonagh's Leenane: "When I see them burned in hell," she says of some schoolchildren who called her names 27 years earlier, "that's when I let bygones be bygones".

If what I meant by "cat" were determined by a causal chain leading back to the kind that prompted the first "that's a cat" utterance, then one might think that the determinants of the meaning of each term could be distinct in the way that atomism requires.