They were the first words he had uttered in two days.

Those two words had not been uttered in 19 games.

How many different names had been uttered in the last five minutes?

Then he looked away, not uttering a word in his defense.

It was the last sound he uttered in this life.

A few words, perhaps uttered in the heat of the moment, and their advantage would be lost.

It was the only word uttered in the house until long after they had finished the food.

The other being, he never uttered a lie in his life.

Those were the first words he had uttered in fifty miles.

He had uttered it in the first place almost automatically.