Sentence examples for wit for from inspiring English sources

(Thank you to reader Job de Wit for that tip).

For adults he is a wit, for children very gentle.

But she reserved her choicest words of wit for her sister Cassandra.

Also missing is much of the wicked wit for which the show is known.

This is wit for wit's sake — or, hostility for hostility's sake.

The most revealing quotations from someone who commonly substituted wit for revelation concern these drawings.

Firstly, it increases a person's wit for when they are insulted.

He has a reputation for devastating wisecracks and coruscating wit for which there is, sadly, no available evidence.

We think of Picasso's pictorial wit, for instance, the way he plays and puns with bodies and body parts.

The blunt wit for which Scruton is known is scarce here, but lyric suits him almost as well as polemic.

She has been required to appear naked in three plays, including "Wit," for which she was the understudy.