Example sentences for: wit

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

  • To wit:

  • In the midst of the smashed glass of the looted shops, German wit eased the discomfort by referring to the event as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).

  • Thanks for your astringent wit and good advice, even if it doesn't apply to me.

  • Surely a kinder and sadder story can be whittled from the same evidence, to wit: that Hillary, a blue-stocking in love with a glamorpuss, had too eagerly bought Bill's Gladstone-like tales of helping troubled young women to find peace: enough so anyway to make a potential laughingstock of herself by repeating them on television, and enough also to give Bill some terrible legal advice in the specific matter of Monica.

  • Many of the pages are not numbered, and a number of the callouts (labels, that is) on the illustrations are not even entered into the main text of the dictionary, to wit, number 8, fly-half, nose tackle, tight end, wide receiver, safety, linebacker, cornerback , to name a few.


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