utterance

Around my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”

All the while, his father continues to make headlines with his every eyebrow-raising utterance.

His dying utterance, “I feel my whole body burning,” was widely reported.

In recent weeks, the markets have been hanging, more than usual, on every Bernanke utterance.

Which, in such cases—the act or the utterance, the gesture or the text—is the palimpsest of other?

And having nothing in their minds which seeks utterance, they remain quiet.

The flood of language and emotion, too long suppressed, again rose to his very lips—when a slight sound stopped his utterance.

Its utterance filled the air like soft thunder, and a hush came over the whole room.

His aching heart, filled with an immeasurable love, remained without the relief of utterance.

He simpered awhile and toyed with trivialities of speech before he gave utterance to the matter that absorbed him.