Use utterly in a sentence
Sentences starting with utterly
- Utterly exhausted, sleep overpowered him in the midst of a pouring rain, and when he awoke he discovered that he was up to his neck in water. [10]
- Utterly taken aback, Macavoy could only stare, puffing in his beard, and drawing in his legs, which had been spread out at angles. [11]
- Utterly worn out--whether by terror or disappointment or by hunger and fatigue she scarcely knew--she sank on a seat and buried her face in her hands. [10]
Sentences ending with utterly
- What--what you desire would not mend your life, but break it utterly. [9]
- You despise him utterly. [7]
- I broke him up, utterly! [5]
- He was going to do it as much for her as for himself, and when he had done it, to be proud of it more for her than for himself; he had said so: she believed in him utterly. [11]
- Therefore the first sheet of legal cap was spoiled utterly. [9]
- No sooner was she in the train, however, than she forgot Mr. Tiernan utterly. [9]
- I am no romanticist, I have no great admiration for myself, and yet when I set out to hunt a woman honestly, be sure I shall never back to kennel till she is mine or I am done for utterly. [11]
- As he now moved away from the main entrance, he asked himself why it was such torture to him to witness the humiliation of a being who had done him such a wrong, and whom he thought he hated and scorned so utterly. [10]
- If we gain life only to have it turn into death--slow death; if we go to pieces again, utterly. [9]
- I scout the idea utterly. [14]
Short sentences using utterly
- It is utterly virgin soil. [5]
- Was it not utterly unprecedented? [10]
- The air was utterly dead. [5]
- She was utterly natural. [11]
- It seems utterly impossible! [5]
- He looked utterly exhausted. [10]
- He was utterly approachable. [11]
- He's utterly ruined. [9]
Sentences containing utterly two or more times
- One would be apt to imagine that the Thugs were utterly callous, utterly destitute of human feelings, heartless toward their own families as well as toward other people's; but this was not so. [5]
More example sentences with the word utterly in them
- I was watching you this morning, and you were so utterly out of place in those surroundings. [9]
- He seemed to Xanthe lost, utterly lost. [10]
- And how soon would anguish of soul utterly destroy the spell, which was slowly, slowly, yet steadily diminishing, and, when the mirror revealed wrinkles which the skill of no Olympus could efface, when she----No, she was not created to grow old! [10]
- Yet how utterly worn he must be! [11]
- The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
- It was no wonder that they returned to Haworth utterly fagged and worn out, after the fatigue and excitement of this visit. [14]
- He found the widow Susannah a corpse; standing at the head of the bed was little Katharina, as pale as death, speechless, tearless, utterly annihilated. [10]
- So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
- It was true what you said, that I was wild and utterly useless, I had never served or pleased any but myself,--and you. [9]
- When I contrast what I have achieved in my measurably brief life with what he has achieved in his possibly briefer one, the effect is to sweep utterly away the ten-story edifice of my own self-appreciation and leave nothing behind but the cellar. [5]
- But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
- And whilst they were so occupied Mr. Marmaduke entered, wholly frenzied from fright, and utterly oblivious to his own blame in the matter. [9]
- Toward evening he went off at a tangent far up-town, so as to be able to tell his wife how utterly preposterous the best there would be as compared even with this ridiculous Grosvenor Green gimcrackery. [8]
- The sense of watching his every motion, himself meanwhile utterly unseen, was delicious. [6]
- Although his dancing was perfect, he lost the step without apparent cause, his expression changed, and for the moment he seemed to be utterly confused. [9]
- If McDowell's force was now beyond our reach, we should be utterly helpless. [7]
- The bitter controversies, wars, and persecutions which have raged in its name are utterly alien to its being. [9]
- On any other view, the similarity of pattern between the hand of a man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, etc., is utterly inexplicable. [1]
- His joy collapsed utterly, and he turned away and moped toward the door moaning and lamenting over the bitterness of his luck. [5]
- The experience was utterly unlike my anticipation. [9]
- Thus he was utterly unable to see what the future held for him in the way of continued communion with her, to evolve any satisfactory theory as to why she remained in the city. [9]
- I have learned utterly to distrust them, and never allow them to bully me out of a thought or line. [6]
- There came again, utterly to blot this out, the memory of her lips. [9]
- She was sitting utterly still, her hands folded in her lap. [11]
- General Grant was utterly ruined; he was left without income and apparently without the means of earning one. [5]
- But she felt utterly estranged from him, and would gladly have told him to his face what she felt. [10]
- What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you? [5]
- But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. [5]
- He was utterly unable to contemplate the disaster which might ensue if certain financial ties, which were thicker than cables, were snapped. [9]
- That is utterly true, dear Gwendolen. [5]
- In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. [5]
- Miss Millicent Skinner, too, was in a like mysterious way compelled to abdicate her high place in favor of Cynthia, and Wetherell was utterly unable to explain how this miracle was accomplished. [9]
- I utterly failed to recognize "Alonzo" in this new atmosphere. [9]
- We have got to move or be content to see our effects wasted away and utterly destroyed. [5]
- The writer happens to know of two diaries which record, on the testimony of eye-witnesses, the circumstances of the last hours of Garfield, and they differ utterly in essential particulars. [4]
- The lad spoke to her, giving expression to his sympathy, and she accepted it; but she said such strange things, and answered him so utterly at random, that he began to fear that grief had turned her brain. [10]
- Of the ability to feel she was utterly bereft. [9]
- As she started to do so, he hastened to prevent her, but, utterly surprised, he saw the horse whinny to her cheek, and arch his neck under her white palm--it was very white. [11]
- When they were tired of lugging him, they lifted him, with much effort and difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and left him there amid the broken bottles, utterly unable to get down. [4]
- I admit I thought you held me utterly bad and heartless, and it made me bitter. [11]
- She had not thought of it before, because it had been as much a part of herself as her eyes or her lips, and it would have seemed utterly impossible to part with it. [10]
- I have been thinking of this ever since, and cannot but think such a notion is utterly foolish. [7]
- For myself, I think that she and the Tutor have both utterly forgotten the difference of their years in the fascination of intimate intercourse. [6]
- As it is, they make delicious cake, and of endless variety; but they also offer us conglomerate formations that may have a scientific value, but are utterly useless to a stomach not trained in Germany. [4]
- He might blame the son, blame the daughter, yet he could not condemn them utterly . [9]
- Ruth wept for the poor little horse, and Marx sat as if utterly crushed beside his old friend's stiffening body, heeding nothing, least of all the snow, which was making him whiter than the miller, with whom he had expected to rest that evening. [10]
- He utterly rejected the old system, and Froebel stationed himself as a fellow-combatant at his side, but went still further. [10]
- You descend beneath the level of human understanding by madly wallowing in the mire; and the more clearly you are convinced that you have seized the truth, the more utterly you are involved in the toils of a miserable delusion. [10]
- And, above all,--if the idea be put a little more crudely and definitely than it occurred in his thoughts, he awoke to the realization that his wife was an asset he had hitherto utterly neglected. [9]
- A conversation about the Emperor's judgment and the rarity with which he bestowed such costly tokens of his regard was commencing in the chapel, but Barbara speedily brought it to a close by the assurance that she was utterly exhausted and needed rest. [10]
- Chester halted in the doorway, his face brick-red, words utterly failing him, while Joe sat horror-stricken, holding aloft on his fork a smoking potato. [9]
- Then came on that tremendous and utterly unaccountable storm. [5]
- The soldiery found that they could depend utterly on Joan, and upon her alone. [5]
- The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in danger of being wrested from the General Government by the strength of the delegation in Congress from the new States, was utterly futile. [7]
- And the idea that she, too, might prefer the sanction of the law, the gilded cage as a popular song which once had taken his fancy illuminatingly expressed it--seemed utterly incongruous with the freedom and daring of her spirit, was a sobering shock. [9]
- Miss Cynthia knew that all Murray Bradshaw's plans, in which he had taken care that she should have a personal interest, had utterly failed. [6]
- The most alarming symptom was a profound prostration, which at last reached such a point that he lay utterly helpless, as unable to move without aid as the feeblest of paralytics. [6]
- In the treacherous sunlight we see Venice decayed, forlorn, poverty-stricken, and commerceless--forgotten and utterly insignificant. [5]
- Tabby's health had suddenly and utterly given way, and she died in this time of distress and anxiety respecting the last daughter of the house she had served so long. [14]
- I never saw such utterly wretched, starving, sad-visaged, broken-hearted looking curs in my life. [5]
- Certain old superstitions, still lingering in the mind of the public, and not yet utterly expelled from that of the profession, are at the bottom of this, or contribute to it largely. [3]
- Only yesterday I still believed that the art of Apelles was utterly degenerate. [10]
- Leaving Alexandria and spending the winter on a lonely island in the tropics was an utterly incomprehensible idea. [10]
- They could suffer solitude, inactivity, and the horrors of a silence that no sound ever disturbed, but they could not bear the thought of being utterly forgotten by the world. [5]
- Why, he'd have slammed you through the window and utterly ruined a hundred dollars' worth of window-sash and stuff. [5]
- Here was a situation, an opportunity suddenly thrust upon me which might never return, and which I was utterly unprepared to meet. [9]
- Crowned with garlands, singing, and utterly careless, we followed soon after them, and had almost reached the quay, when a noisy troop rushed out of a side street, and fell upon us with naked weapons. [10]
- All this time she was utterly unconscious of any charm that she was exercising, or of being herself subject to any personal fascination. [6]
- O misery of semi-provincial fashionable life, where wealth is at its wit's end to avoid being tired of an existence which has all the labor of keeping up appearances, without the piquant profligacy which saves it at least from being utterly vapid! [6]
- To me he seems utterly good and dear; I've never seen anything about him that looked otherwise-- except, of course, his calling himself an earl's son. [5]
- The old man sat himself down in a chair, and with folded hands, looked sometimes at his grandson and sometimes at his strange companion, as if he were utterly powerless and had no resource but to leave them to do as they pleased. [12]
- Nor can I resist the desire to prophesy any more than you can do, knowing that I may prove utterly mistaken. [6]
- The delicate, maidenly, reserved woman, who was utterly incapable of any loud or rude expression of feeling in ordinary life, would now have rushed to the walls, like Kanau Hasselaer of Haarlem, to fight the foe among the men. [10]
- His religion was real to him, though he failed utterly to make it comprehensible to me. [9]
- The chief philologist, Professor Woodlouse, maintained that they were writings, done in a character utterly unknown to scholars, and in a language equally unknown. [5]
- To a large portion of the people who frequent Washington or dwell where, the ultra fashion, the shoddy, the jobbery are as utterly distasteful as they would he in a refined New England City. [5]
- Now such a policy may have a temporary run; it may spring up as necessary to the political prospects of some gentleman; but it is utterly baseless: the people are not indifferent, and it can therefore have no durability or permanence. [7]
- The house had pointed gables, and a tiny and utterly useless porch that served only to darken the front door, made of heavy pieces of wood fantastically curved. [9]
- I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest" (Tannenwald). [5]
- When I leaned over her, I had fallen utterly and entirely into the power of the evil one, and was an ally of the deadliest enemy of Him to whom I had dedicated my life and soul. [10]
- So utterly worn out was I when I got to Derby, that I was again obliged to stay there all night. [14]
- They had to order the frugal household with increased care, so as to supply wants and expenditure utterly foreign to their self-denying natures. [14]
- Now and then one meets with a nature for which our hard, practical New England life is obviously utterly incompetent. [6]
- I put it on a horse he condemned utterly, but of which one or two people spoke well. [11]
- Along the sides of the room were deep alcoves, like bay windows; and in each of these lay several marble- visaged babes, utterly hidden and buried under banks of fresh flowers, all but their faces and crossed hands. [5]
- All the remainder of the raiment they indulged in was utterly indescribable. [5]
- I shall perish of my debauchery if Thou utterly desertest me! [2]
- Soft-hearted weakness is not usually your defect, but you will utterly spoil Polykarp. [10]
- Well, you ought not to go into the dome anyhow, because it would be utterly impossible to go up there without seeing the frescoes in it--and why should you be interested in the delirium tremens of art? [5]
- He certainly did not glance at Kit or at his mother, and appeared utterly unconscious of their presence; still Kit could not help feeling, directly, that the attention of the sly little fiend was fastened upon them, and upon nothing else. [12]
- Now there was no one to whom to turn, she was cut off, utterly, from humanity, an outcast. [9]
- For he was never famous during his lifetime, he was utterly obscure in Stratford, and there wouldn't be any occasion to remember him after he had been dead a week. [5]
- There in the middle of the moonlit valley below them stood the "ha'nted" house, utterly isolated, its fences gone long ago, rank weeds smothering the very doorsteps, the chimney crumbled to ruin, the window-sashes vacant, a corner of the roof caved in. [5]
- He is with me, uninjured, but apparently exhausted; like a different being, bereft of courage, listless as if utterly crushed. [10]
- Now there are many individuals, long and well known to the scientific world, who have tried these experiments upon healthy subjects, and utterly deny that their effects have at all corresponded to Hahnemann's assertions. [3]
- She utterly ruined--how long ago is it?--the unfortunate Menander, my poor Ismene's young husband. [10]
- Never in my life had I been so utterly taken aback. [9]
- And her heart leaped as she saw the light growing in his eyes, for it meant much to her that he should see that she was not utterly dismantled. [9]
- Yet there he lay with his face hidden in the pillows as if utterly overwhelmed. [10]
- To the west lay the wilderness of Aean, and if the wanderers escaped in that direction, and were pressed farther, they would again enter Egyptian soil and the exodus would be utterly defeated. [10]
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