Sentence examples for he quipped back from inspiring English sources

"I didn't know you cared!" he quipped back.

Asked if there was a "secret" element, he quipped back: "The French should know the secret because you make the wheels of our bicycles".

Are people coming together?'" Christie made no direct mention of any ambitions in the 2016 presidential race, though one woman in the crowd shouted out: "Chris Christie for president!" He quipped back: "I guess there is open bar tonight, huh?

When he was once asked, do you have any convictions, he quipped back, 'Yes, one, for speeding, a long time ago.' We don't know anything about what a Johnsonian government would be like, so all we have to go on is his personality and character.

"Sorry," he quipped back, "Masculine only".

In his gracious way, he quipped back that I had just complimented him.

"That's what the funding's for," he quips back.

"Not as hot as I'm gonna be," she quipped back.

As Harmony, Monaghan is a real find; she winces at the bum notes of L.A., yet she quips back at Harry as if they were soloists riffing on the same tune.

When Mr. Romney criticized Mr. Obama for wanting to redistribute income, he was channeling Ronald Reagan, who quipped back in 1964: we "can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one".

MSNBC's John Heilemann quipped back that he has indeed "written it down" and will keep "it on a little piece of paper in my wallet".