Example sentences for: quip

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

  • (Livingston does not seem to notice the obvious conflict between Points 3 and 4, nor the factual difficulties raised by Point 2.) Shields is dumbstruck by Livingston's slippery deftness but gets off this quip: "I have no idea whose side you're on or whom you're defending but I know you just endorsed the New Testament."

  • Opera diva Jessye Norman lost her bid to sue for libel over a "vulgar and undignified" quip about her size.

  • Gingrich's own mood swings prompt one anonymous GOP congressman to quip that "a good dose of antidepressants might help, if he isn't on them already."

  • I refer to your quip about it being the '60s, and how could you be expected to remember anything ? Prudie's first thought was to suggest that you tell the proverbial "little white lie" to make the subject go away.

  • Actually, it was a quip pro quo--a retort Prudie could not resist.


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