Example sentences for: quip

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

  • The WP and LAT attribute the quip to Gary Bauer.

  • William Safire uses his space to retail an Arlen Specter quip about the tension between the FBI director and his boss: "The Department of Justice cannot survive half slave and half Freeh."

  • Two terms that come close to being classic wit are quip and wisecrack , both of them Americanisms.

  • (Scalia quotes Judge Harold Leventhal's quip that using legislative history is like looking over the heads at a cocktail party until you spot your friends.)

  • 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."


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