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

More familiar as a wisecracking action hero in blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World, this role is quite a departure for him.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Here again is that combination of lightly developed workplace issues, romantic complications and wisecracking banter one finds in most every broadcast procedural, a formula that can keep viewers watching for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

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

In the middle sat Garvey, the gravelly-voiced, wisecracking Indian parole officer from Minneapolis.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen