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
She nicknamed me "Tow-head" in allusion to my light hair, and had always some clever remark to make at my expense.
From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Brazil, Angela
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
He would say that the whole hat trade of London was disorganised by the news that a clever remark had been made by a young M. P. on the subject of the imports of Jamaica.
From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The astute monarch's calculations were admirably exposed by a clever remark of the Prince of Ballybunion.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
