Sentence examples for better quips from inspiring English sources

"Who has tied my son-in-law to his sword" was one of his better quips, on catching sight of his daughter's very short husband.

"My honourable friend is annoying". "No, my honourable friend is annoying, nerrr!" There are people in pubs across the land coming out with better quips than that after only a couple of lagers.

"They've got more people, but we've aged better," quipped Bootleg Lennon as they kicked into A Hard Day's Night.

Friends are better," quipped one GC, but Google remains first stop in the standard three step process of "Internet research," "outreach to the legal network," "hire outside counsel".

Houston has not spoken to either of them individually about that experience, but is confident the current side is better quipped, mentally and physically, to handle the occasion however it unfolds.

"And later on he will be beaten by a better man," quips Steven Joyce.

"It just don't get any better," she quipped, husky-voiced again.

"Signing is good, ratifying is better," Hollande quipped at the Élysée Palace ceremony, flanked by environment minister Ségolène Royal, foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and other top officials.

"This has been one of my better weeks," quipped Arden Bement, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), applauding what he called the lawmakers' "strong support for science".

"I like mine better," O'Neal quipped at the time.

"But I don't say they'll be fun," he quips, "Better keep a motorbike on the side".