quip
Example Sentences
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When asked after the game about a particularly labored stretch during the second quarter, James quipped that it wasn’t just that moment.
From Los Angeles Times
“I feel like I’m already a student here,” Santiago quipped.
From Los Angeles Times
Groucho Marx quipped that he wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would accept him as a member.
From Barron's
One quip was about how the BBC plays the children’s game musical chairs: “When the music stops, they put in another chair.’
In one of many quips in “Modernism,” he remarks that “novelty is just the same old thing.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
