wisecracking

Example Sentences

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The bill opened with an onstage, truncated ballet class, with Erán Fink at the piano, conducted by Tomas Karlborg, the group’s wisecracking ballet master.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

A key hallmark of Murphy’s status is his voluminous gallery of offbeat characters — an impeccably attired prison convict, a clumsy professor, a wisecracking donkey, an elderly Jewish man and even an obese, abusive wife.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

In “Crying Inside,” for example, he sings, “I’ve been wisecracking like the good old days / but pretty soon I’m going to slip away.”

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2024

The puppeteer even hallucinates seeing Eric standing next to him, wisecracking and poking holes in his ego - because "puppets say the things we can't".

From BBC • May 26, 2024

By day at the bookbindery, we glue gunned our way into a companionable oblivion, wisecracking until there was nothing left to say.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama