Status even remotely comparable to that of Mao, who could set off national turmoil with a single utterance, would be more far-fetched.

Code-switching occurs when a child combines more than one language in a single utterance.

He seemed unable to voice a single utterance.

A single twitch or a single utterance would be enough to restart his dying.

In a single utterance he managed both to tarnish his own good deed and reveal an appalling lack of conviction.

Many studies of the human language comprehension process have focused on reading of single utterances (sentences) without context.

And in all those five weeks she never gave an interview, never made a single public utterance outside of her stage routine.

Hattie and Edward part company without a single attributable utterance.

It is also possible to have multiple acts working within a single utterance.

He uses the indeterminacy of language to convey, through a single utterance, two very different propositions to the audience.