Sentences with wit
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W w - Boulding was known for his biting wit.
- Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests.
- It's here he gets to demonstrate how sharp his wit is, and he does it well.
- Dr Anita Heiss, one of the emerging faces of Aboriginal Australia, jokingly describes herself as a concrete Koori with a Westfield dreaming.
- The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it.
- She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today.
- The film lacks any saving wit or humour amid the special effects extravaganzas.
- With her brutal wit and affable style, Hocking is a hoot.
- You scared us out of our wits. We heard you had an accident.
- Using one's wits to get ahead.
- Wit1 refers to the ability to perceive the incongruous and to express it in quick, sharp, spontaneous, often sarcastic remarks that delight or entertain; , humor is applied to the ability to perceive and express that which is comical, ludicrous, or ridiculous, but connotes kindliness, geniality, sometimes even pathos, in the expression and a reaction of sympathetic amusement from the audience; , irony1 refers to the humor implicit in the contradiction between literal expression and intended meaning or in the discrepancy between appearance and reality in life; , satire applies to the use, especially in literature, of ridicule, sarcasm, irony, etc. in exposing and attacking vices or follies; , repartee refers to the ability to reply or retort with quick, skillful wit or humor
- It was the time of the vernal equinox, to wit, the beginning of spring.
- He's gone completely out of his wits.
- Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
- The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?
- You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly. They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.