How to Use utterly in a Sentence

utterly

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• In the past eleven years, the Boy Scouts have been utterly transformed.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 May 2024
• Most of this was, to say the least, utterly predictable.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Da Brat is still utterly in awe of what her body just did.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• By the time Mokhtari is done, the pencil is utterly destroyed, of course.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 May 2024
• Ditch Google maps and get utterly lost for at least a couple hours.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2023
• Then he was undone by his own mind — and by a health care system that utterly failed him.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• And yet, somehow, new forms are utterly irresistible and nothing like the relics of the 2010s.
  — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, refinery29.com, 4 Sep. 2024
• But the delights of this record somehow feel utterly new.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the retirement ages have utterly failed to keep pace.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• To be fair, the Yankees did not seem so utterly hopeless through much of this season.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• And the score from Manos: Hands of Fate is deeply weird, but like the film itself, that soundtrack casts a strange and utterly singular spell.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
• More and more content that is distorted – or at the very least, utterly bland.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• To the villagers’ surprise, the old man and the village survived utterly unscathed.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Those forces utterly collapsed in a matter of hours less than a month later.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2023
• A little graphic for my tastes, but the tension is what makes the book so utterly compelling and breath-freezing.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2024
• And, if the kid had been doing the same thing for three straight days, the mom could have been taking a mental break so as not to completely and utterly lose her mind.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 25 Sep. 2023
• In one tricky scene, when Dan enters a rehearsal as the new, deeply reluctant Romeo, utterly at sea.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
• Her styles are produced in small batches and the look is utterly cool—cowboy meets cabana meets the casbah.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 3 May 2024
• The same cropped fit was rendered also in a version in a chocolate shade with white profiles that was utterly chic.
  — Luisa Zargani, WWD, 23 Sep. 2024
• At this point in the Covid-19 pandemic, that was utterly normal.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
• Not to put a fine point on things, but all this shows Musk to have gone utterly off the rails and over the edge of conspiracy-mongering paranoia.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• For one thing, the earbuds have an utterly flat frequency response down to about 20 Hz.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• The end result is saucy, sour, sweet—and utterly irresistible.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• Some of this ire can likely be chalked up to the simple fact that some people just don’t like kids, which is, in my view, utterly reasonable.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• And while all its rooms are certainly worthy of a stay, the villas are utterly sublime.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2024
• Each one of them feels as utterly familiar as the White Stripes and early solo songs that surround them.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2024
• The three-cheese blend makes for a luscious, utterly addictive pasta that's worth the pain for those, like me, who can't tolerate dairy.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
• This means having to face some utterly baffling narrative turns along the way.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
• Watch as the flood of celebratory messages come in — and your boyfriend is utterly confused as to why.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Their correspondence is mostly about art, but one passage stands out as utterly romantic.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024