Example sentences for: one-liners

How can you use “one-liners” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the flat, windy landscape of the nation's opinion pages, Dowd stands out for her sharp one-liners and her brisk aperçus . Woody Allen's recent movies are versions of The Catcher in the Rye Bread . Al Gore ("Prince Albert") "grew up as the capital's version of Eloise at the Plaza."

  • At a time when dumb one-liners and tasteless jokes can be tossed off on TV and elsewhere as examples of wit without causing anyone to cringe, perhaps the moment has arrived to make some distinctions and straighten out the nomenclature among those terms that fall under the umbrella of eliciting laughter.

  • They laud his intermingling of fiction and reality, his fresh one-liners, and the all-star ensemble cast (which includes Robin Williams, Demi Moore, and Kirstie Alley).

  • Critics note it contains Cornwell's trademarks: vivid descriptions of autopsies, soft-porn sex scenes, over-caffeinated one-liners, and inchoate plots.

  • Puns are a common source of jokes, especially those that have come to be called one-liners.


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