wits
Example Sentences
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“This has got to be something that they want to do and want to do all the time and want to talk about to their wits’ end,” he says of his hosts.
From Los Angeles Times
She needs more medical attention than he, but both have their wits about them.
From Los Angeles Times
Not quite all there in his wits anymore, but he’s got more wild seafaring stories in that gray head than you could shake a stick at.
From Literature
We can see that Shakespeare really was an upstart compared to the Oxford and Cambridge wits, but also how he cobbled together a practical, hands-on education in Shoreditch.
Our robot would have to rely on her wits.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
