"utterance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Borrowing affects the lexicon, the words that make up a language, while code-switching takes place in individual utterances.
- The structure of discourse is created by the relationship of meanings in utterances.
- In such strange utterances we see quite clearly what is really at the bottom of all these articles and books.
- The child speaks in long but poorly intelligible utterances, producing what sounds like jargon.
- The managers spoke in cryptic, allusive utterances, using technical jargon that was opaque to her.
- He asked for Jarvis; when he heard the reply, his questions came in short, quick utterances.
- I presented the case for the Friendlies, in the Friendlies' own terms and utterances.
- In his published essays, private letters and personal utterances, he argued for a strong color line, for the purpose of preserving race and culture.
- The third, in which the two conduct a relationship, from beginning to end, in single-syllable utterances, would make a good acting school exercise.
- Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words.
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