Example sentences for: punchy

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

  • According to Edwards, one recent innovation is the colored index card summarizing a conservative position in "short, punchy sentences."

  • Kaye has a punchy way with montage, and the script has at least one card up its sleeve: the climactic revelation that Derek's revered fireman dad (William Russ) was himself a racist who urged his son at the dinner table not to get too cozy with niggers or their literature.

  • Actually, since the debate occurred around twilight on this coast, I experienced most of it on the radio, and I thought Bradley was responding to coaching that he be (slightly) more punchy in his delivery.

  • In fact, punchy ripostes are sprinkled so heavily throughout Simon's comedies that people have been led to believe that he writes the gags first, then fleshes out the rest of the play around them.

  • He discovered the perfect project in James Ellroy's punchy, labyrinthine crime novel, one of the few from the last decade that doesn't feel as if it was written expressly to be filmed.


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