Sentence examples for wit not only from inspiring English sources

Kirgo's well-known wit not only defused tensions at guild meetings and negotiations, but also earned him a living.

Runyon's wit is not only encapsulated but even magnified in the book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.

Wit comes not only out of her mouth but of her elbow.

She's currently leading the cast of Treasure Island at the National Theatre as a female Jim, and has received excellent reviews – the Observer's Susannah Clapp wrote last week: "Wit comes not only out of [Ferran's] mouth but of her elbow.

Lat's political wit targeted not only local politicians, but also Israeli actions in the Middle East and foreign figures such as prominent Singaporean politician Lee Kwan Yew.

Salman Rushdie's friend Christopher Hitchens wrote God Is Not Great fully intending to offend, and he did so with wit and verve: Not only did he not pull punches, he made sure they hit hard.

In this manuscript, we show that Wit rapidly inhibits not only basal levels of constitutively activated STAT3 but also inhibits growth factor- (e.g., EGF and PDGF) and cytokine- (e.g., IL-6, IFN- β and GM-CSF) stimulated STAT3 and STAT5 tyrosine phosphorylation.

Hubbard told his friend Forrest J. Ackerman that he had acquired a Dictaphone machine which Sara was "beating out her wits on" transcribing not only fiction but his book on the "cause and cure of nervous tension".

However, it is a brilliant work, exuberant of wit and irony, that not only constitutes a biographical landmark but is also the first piece of modern English prose.

Bolender has wit and observation (which not only illuminated his own dancing but also gives "Sou venirs" its special cachet), and this is what he should concentrate on in his choreo graphy.

(It's a real tribute to Shriver's wit and imagination that not only are the details of the hilariously brilliant "Baby Monotonous" convincing, but you feel she should rush to patent it before someone else does).