Example Sentences

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I tutted something about the symptoms of perimenopause and ignored it - but two days later I was laid up in bed with gastric flu.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024

“Tall John is running late today, too,” Tutt tutted.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

She tutted at the audacity of doubting “feminine creative forces.”

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

In one of the heart-rending conversations we had, days before her death, my mother shook her head and tutted: “I’m disappointed. You should have had me for another 30 years.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2019

Ishtar caught me looking at it and tutted.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda