Example sentences for: witty

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

  • Unlike campier predecessors, this movie about the Mexican Robin Hood is said to offer impeccable stunts and a genuinely witty screenplay.

  • This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old "Letters from Europe" that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape.

  • He is witty, well-informed, and good-natured.

  • The play unfolds in monologues, with Jack making a witty case for his desertion of Judy, then Judy speaking, then Howard, then back to Jack, and so on; the three of them sit at a long table and talk into the camera, occasionally pouring themselves glasses of water as panelists at a conference do.

  • In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.


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