Words similar to quips
Example sentences for: quips
How can you use “quips” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"A political nonstarter," states Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ). "Richard Nixon did for executive privilege what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen," quips Mark Shields ( Capital Gang ). The Nixon parallels continue on NBC's Meet the Press , where Joe diGenova faces off with Clinton spinner Lanny Davis, demanding that the president confess to having hired private dicks to investigate private citizens (including himself and his law-partner wife).
Novak ( Capital Gang ) is not so sure that Babbitt is really Mr. Clean and Mark Shields ( Capital Gang ) quips that if exonerated, Babbitt will be the first Arizona governor in 20 years who doesn't end up in the stir.
Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).
Asked on Late Edition about George W.'s repeated use of the F-word in his Talk magazine interview, Gary Bauer quips, "I found that article surprising--[although] I'll leave it to Governor Bush to talk with his mom about the language he uses."
Afterwards, they cut back to the anchorwoman and she's trading quips with the other newscaster and fanning herself in that Hand-Gesture That Wouldn't Raise an Eyebrow in the Middle of Sunday Services way that very, very middle-aged, very, very white people do to indicate that they have become sexually aroused.
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