Example sentences for: quip

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

  • The implicit message of this quip is, "If you want to look at somebody's fund raising, look at Bush's."

  • Are you sure you aren't thinking of, say, "Precious" (with its "fuck off" line) or "Tattooed Love Boys" (with Hynde's quip "I shot my mouth off/And you showed me what that hole was for")?

  • The press conference was strikingly Western-style, says the paper, complete with Zhu's deflection of a serious question about eventual national elections with a quip about pictures of him in Time and Newsweek .

  • ' " On NewsHour he relates another borrowed quip (from Morris Udall): "When Democrats form a firing squad, they form a circle."

  • On television, he can be relied on consistently to connect the Topic of the Day to first principles, to forsake the cheap quip for a larger point.


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