quip

Example Sentences

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Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.

From Salon

“I feel like the prettiest girl in the room right now,” he quipped, accepting the director trophy.

From Los Angeles Times

“Love is in the air,” one X user quipped, “and so is Falcon 9.”

From Los Angeles Times

He said it was "very early for that question" and offered no further comment, prompting Letts, 60, to raise a laugh by quipping: "I'm the next James Bond."

From Barron's

He also quipped: "I've compiled everyone who works at my local takeaway pizza place into a book. It's my Domino's Who's Who."

From BBC