Example sentences for: witty

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

  • Take, for example, the three quotations from Clarence Darrow given for April 18 in Witty Words (in which, it is easy to see from the subtitle, quotations are arranged for each day of the year):

  • I almost don't know why I loved it, but the relaxed pacing and the witty turns by Martin Short, Ted Danson, David Paymer, and Mary McDonnell surely helped.

  • Not all the quotations are witty; an inept one is credited to Adolph Deutsch:

  • a witty, fast-moving yarn."

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.


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