Uttering Sentence Examples

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  • She turned, uttering an exclamation that came from nowhere.

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  • He found himself uttering "verses which he had never heard."

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  • He died in the attitude of blessing and uttering words of forgiveness.

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  • In the Book of Wisdom, again, the composition of an Egyptian Hellenist, who from internal evidence is judged to have lived somewhat earlier than Philo, Solomon is introduced uttering words of admonition, imbued with the spirit of Greek philosophers, to heathen sovereigns.

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  • Thus the savage, uttering the sound waow!

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  • As he left her chambers, he was unable to dispel the whispered warning that the queen of Tiyan had managed to force him into uttering an oath he swore never to give.

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  • He was, justifiably, taken apart by Hugo Young of The Guardian for uttering similar platitudes on Frost.

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  • This was followed by a lone, solitary, slow hand clap, with the culprit uttering the words, " Nice job Anthony.

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  • Initially, " shouting " was probably no more than uttering ejaculations of praise.

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  • They found the apparent lunatic struggling in the grasp of two or three gentlemen and uttering imprecations of the most violent kind.

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  • Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.

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  • He saw Daniel close to the glass, staring down, repeatedly uttering, " Oh my God.

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  • Between songs Peter was very quiet, barely uttering a word.

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  • Before yielding her head to the block, she bowed before the clay statue of Liberty erected;in the Place de la Revolution, uttering her famous apostrophe - "0 Liberty!

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  • He shall then "live without a fire, without a house, without pleasures, without protection; remaining silent and uttering speech only on the occasion of the daily recitation of the Veda; begging so much food only in the village as will sustain his life, he shall wander about, neither caring for this world nor for heaven.

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  • Pierre looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved his lips without uttering a sound.

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  • He was knocking the back of his head against the floor, hoarsely uttering some word which he kept repeating.

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  • A sovereign should not be with the army unless he is a general! said Napoleon, evidently uttering these words as a direct challenge to the Emperor.

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  • There were only thoughts clearly expressed in words, thoughts that someone was uttering or that he himself was formulating.

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  • The cart was loaded high, and at the very top, beside a child's chair with its legs in the air, sat a peasant woman uttering piercing and desperate shrieks.

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  • Pierre was silent because he was incapable of uttering a word.

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  • The corporal frowned at Pierre's words and, uttering some meaningless oaths, slammed the door.

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  • They came up to the fire, hoarsely uttering something in a language our soldiers did not understand.

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  • He saw Daniel close to the glass, staring down, repeatedly uttering, Oh my God.

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  • Two media folk in Millbank regularly wager bets on how long certain politicians can go in an interview without uttering their favorite words.

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  • The goal is to get your team to guess what you are acting out without uttering a word or pointing to anyone or anything in the room.

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  • Who could forget playing Battleship - game after game with your friends or siblings, and uttering the famous line, "You sank my battleship!"

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  • LoveToKnow is here to help with resources for entertainment and education to keep your children amused, productive and not uttering the dreaded phrase, "I'm bored."

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  • Some clairvoyants call upon the spirits to show the future of a person seeking guidance, uttering that seeker's name and relating the images that come into the clairvoyant's consciousness.

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  • In later years he did not shrink from uttering a word of warning and advice, when he thought that the master of the Florentine republic was too much inclined to yield to pleasure.

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  • By uttering a sacred formula the good spirit throws the evil one into a state of confusion for a second 3000 years, while he produces the archangels and the material creation, including the sun, moon and stars.

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  • The names of the species, both English and scientific, have been bestowed from its capacity of successfully imitating the cry of many other birds, to say nothing of other sounds, in addition to uttering notes of its own which possess a varied range and liquid fullness of tone that are unequalled, according to its admirers, even by those of the nightingale.

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  • He took a prominent part in the agitation which followed "the Bulgarian atrocities"; his speeches were intemperate, and he was accused of uttering the words "Perish India!"

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  • Those who only know the Snipe as it shows itself in the shooting-season, when without warning it rises from the boggy ground uttering a sharp note that sounds like scape, scape, and, after a few rapid twists, darts away, if it be not brought down by the gun, to disappear in the distance after a desultory flight, have no conception of the bird's behaviour at breeding-time.

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  • In the same month, twenty-five years afterwards, the execution of his mistress, according to the verdict of her contemporaries in France, avenged the blood of a lover who had died without uttering a word to realize the apprehension which (according to Knox) had before his trial impelled her to desire her brother "that, as he loved her, he would slay Chastelard, and let him never speak word."

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  • The herd never feeds without having a sentinel posted on some prominence to give notice of the approach of danger; which is done by stamping on the ground with the forefeet, and uttering a shrill whistling note, thus putting the entire herd on the alert.

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  • And if here and there, as one can scarcely doubt, there was among the old Moslems a lover of poetry who had his difficulties about this dogma, he had to beware of uttering an opinion which might have cost him his head.

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  • This is done about midsummer, when by the aid of torches and long poles many thousands of the young birds are slaughtered, while their parents in alarm and rage hover over the destroyers' heads, uttering harsh and deafening cries.

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  • A most singular habit possessed by this bird is that of rising in the air and soaring there in circles at an immense altitude, uttering at intervals the very loud cry of which its local name is an imitation.

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  • All this time Heloise had lived amid universal esteem for her knowledge and character, uttering no word under the doom that had fallen upon her youth; but now, at last, the occasion came for expressing all the pent-up emotions of her soul.

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  • For many of the actions of that government no honorable man can think of uttering a word of defence.

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  • Disturbed from the moor or marsh, where it has its nest, it rises swiftly into the air, conspicuous by its white back and rump, and uttering shrill cries flies round the intruder.

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  • There sat the thorny Sorcerer in his chair of state, and when the Wizard saw him he began to laugh, uttering comical little chuckles.

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  • Dorothy sprang forward and caught the fluffy fowl in her arms, uttering at the same time a glad cry.

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  • On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.

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  • Helene laughed, "that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other word, "and you believed it!

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  • In Northeast Thailand, Hmong women go through labor without uttering a sound.

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  • During the rutting-season male camels become exceedingly savage and dangerous, uttering a loud bubbling roar and engaging in fierce contests with their fellows.

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  • She turned on the device and waited, uttering a cry of dismay when she saw the background.

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