Example sentences for: wittily

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

  • Go to work on can of course be interpreted idiomatically as attack, but the presentation also hinted wittily at the literal sense of the phrase by portraying a man pedaling to work on a cycle with a single egg-shaped wheel.

  • A merican Beauty is so wittily written and gorgeously directed that you might think you're seeing something archetypal--maybe even the Great American Movie.

  • Standardized tests are dispatched wittily in a scene in 'Tis in which an "Academic Chairman" reels off a list of what McCourt, as a neophyte teacher, must do with a class full of angry, ignorant, rebellious teen-agers:

  • The second essay wittily assesses the literary value of the report, comparing it with classic novels of adultery such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina . Starr offers unnecessarily colorful detail: "Instead of prosecuting a case, his narrative enacts a drama, and makes sympathetically banal what might have been merely illegal."

  • The film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, would be worth seeing just for Stamp's performance, at once rock-hard and goofily blinkered, and for Peter Fonda's wittily self-parodic turn as the suspected killer, a music producer who coasts on '60s counterculture easiness while his lackeys do the dirty work.


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