Sentence examples for mots around from inspiring English sources

Peter was at his best firing bon mots around the table, belting out bar songs or hymns, or telling tall tales.

Or at least a tale about some of the bons mots that she tossed around with the ease of her buddy Alan King.

Ms. Vann's Diane is queen of the bons mots and a joy to be around.

Clough's information was that Burns drove around in a battered Vauxhall Viva with no MOT or insurance ("Not true," Burns always insisted).

To the locals, he is a man who "doesn't have a job, but just runs around with a notebook, collecting bons mots".

I call this "the search for the mot juste," because when I was in the eighth grade Miss Bartholomew told us that Gustave Flaubert walked around in his garden for days on end searching in his head for le mot juste.

The handful of Marxist determinists still lurking around out there will appreciate their wisecracking hero's lighthearted bon mots, such as, "The labour process is the everlasting nature-imposed condition of human existence".

Whereas most other killers silently lumber toward their victims like unstoppable forces of nature, Freddy bounces around like a Tex Avery character spouting off the cheesy, pre-attack bon mots of an evil Roger Moore Bond.

I was distraught, beyond mots.

Un palimpseste de bons mots?

Quotes Goethe's bon mots.