Sentence examples for being a smart-ass from inspiring English sources
"Me being a smart-ass didn't upset her.
"I gave a speech at Brown, and some kid sits in the front row and says, 'What would you have changed in your life?' Being a smart-ass, I said, 'The verdict.' " Runco and her guests voiced their concerns.
Being a smart-ass, I wrote a column for the Guardian pointing out the ludicrousness of the injunction system, given that foreign newspapers were free to write about the story with impunity.
He was being a smart-ass.
Like the white-guy comedians of the seventies, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, he was a smart-ass, a trickster.
"It just sounds like you're making fun of the song 'Yesterday.' " "Don't be a smart-ass.
He was just blabbing away, like 'Oh, you think you're a smart-ass,' this and that.
"Well, at one school, there was this nun who thought I was a smart-ass because I was always done with my work early.
"Shrek" is fast, clever, and self-reflexive enough to melt the heart of a post-structuralist; even the donkey is a smart-ass.
He told me to shut my sanctimonious mouth and not to think that hell's fires would pain me any less just because I was a smart-ass.
