give utterance

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To assert that an increase in tariff of a cent a pound causes an advance of 6 to 8 cents a pound in the price of sugar is to give utterance to clotted nonsense!'

From Time Magazine Archive

I cannot give utterance to my feelings of shame and degradation in realizing that we did so little to save these desperate and brave men.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did not give utterance to this conviction: it was enough to feel it.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Father Gomez, beholding his victim thus unexpectedly escape him, sat mute and thunderstruck for some moments, unable to give utterance to the extremity of his rage and astonishment.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

I am now desired to attempt, in your name, to give utterance to the universal feeling around me.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel