Sentence examples for smart retort from inspiring English sources
The smart retort is "compared with what"?
In Wilde's naughty-but-nice epigrammatic way, Max polished the smart retort, the critical bon mot that unfailingly attracts.
Una Merkel impersonates a saucy chorus girl who is always ready with a smart retort for any impertinent young man.The show within the story is imaginatively staged, with clever groupings of dancers and fine photography.
Could that now be what my two kids think of me for not at least offering up a whip-smart retort to the reason the pediatrician gave my daughter for getting the flu mist vaccine?
"That makes me smart," Trump retorted at one point.
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — For three days last month I had a break from family squabbles and smart-alecky retorts.
It was a smart self-deprecating retort that got the rest of the audience on his side.
"That makes me smart," Trump quickly retorted.
"That makes me smart," he quickly retorted.
Think of good retorts that are smart and will get them to be quiet for a bit.
In a 2012 review of Mary Beard's TV documentary Meet the Romans, Gill wrote that the Cambridge professor "should be kept away from cameras altogether", prompting Beard to retort that he was afraid of smart women.
