clever remark
Example Sentences
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One clever remark read, “My favorite Star Wars memory would have to be the time Disney tried to lay legal claim to every tweet on Twitter that used a particular hashtag.”
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2020
He said, at last: "These Boer dances are very low things;" and then, as soon as it had gone from him, he thought it was not a clever remark, and wished it back.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive
I made what I considered a very clever remark: “Without an original there can be no imitation.”
From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George
The astute monarch's calculations were admirably exposed by a clever remark of the Prince of Ballybunion.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Seward, however, consoled himself with the clever remark, that there is no great difference between an elected president of the United States and an hereditary monarch.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass
