Sentence examples for a witticism from inspiring English sources
He had shocked Philip by belching loudly and without apology, as if making a witticism.
There it is". He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this.
He kept in touch with students after graduation, sending along encouragement, a witticism, or advice exactly when it was needed.
The entire class, obviously accustomed to his antics had, I later realised, been waiting for such a witticism.
Bruno had no clue whether the eaten tiger was a garish boast or a witticism of Lim's.
Unlike its characters, real mafiosi are just as likely to be podgy and their women plain, and to have never uttered a witticism in their lives.
In some cases, this can lead to a pleasant surprise: long-lost pictures, an old witticism, a fragment of a distant conversation.
Whether it is a smile or a favorite witticism, effective teachers leave a vestige of their idiosyncratic ways on the blank slate of their students.
That is, it opens with a misfired witticism uttered at an elite East London dinner party.
"When the facts change I change my mind, what do you do?" is a Keynesian witticism that has become a cliché in recent months as Keynes himself became one of those dead economists whose influence he so deplored.
He enquired as to Morrissey's Christian name and, on being told "Steven", muttered: "I knew it was either that or Jim... .. Meanwhile Morrissey remained his shy and retiring self, entering the conversation now and then with a clear point or a dry witticism.
