How to Use quip in a Sentence

quip

1 of 2 noun
  • They traded quips over a beer.
  • Just like one of his quips: fly in, have soup, get home.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In doing so, he’s been known to throw in a quip or two.
    Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The group brought the house down with their quips when Fallon ran through tracks with them.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This isn't the first time Jost has been forced to make a quip about Johansson's work.
    Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The joke, as BoJack mansplains of his own quips, works on both levels.
    Zak Jason, Wired, 1 Feb. 2020
  • This led the actor to make a quip about why Sherman was left out of the follow-up shot.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But the era in which the girl could freely offer her tongue-cheek quips had already faded.
    Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The quip could have been a response to recent A-list pressure on Drescher and the guild to make a deal quickly.
    William Earl, Variety, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve shed a few tears, but Whalen kept the mood light with a steady stream of her trademark dry-witted quips.
    Dave Campbell, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Kelly kicked off the night with a quip about her aversion to public speaking.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 3 Dec. 2018
  • While Sunny, Meghan, and Abby chuckled a little bit at the quip, Whoopi full-on lost it.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Insert your own quip about a volcanic sacking of Rome here.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • Derive excrement joke, Send your quip to the Empress, win a bad prize.
    Pat Myers, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The comment called to mind a quip by another sports team owner, the late Art Modell.
    Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • It was all scripted, but a lot of the asides and quips were his own sensibility.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The quip draws laughs from a crowd packed into the parlor of a historic home to hear what Holzer has to say about the 16th president.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • He’s always got a story, is always ready with a quip and isn’t afraid to let the four-letter words roll off the tongue in the most creative ways.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In 1978, Munger joined Berkshire Hathaway as vice-chairman and has sat by his side, quick with a quip or a sage piece of advice.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Does playing someone who’s so quick with a quip and so reliant on his sharp wit follow you home?
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 24 May 2019
  • Franklyn, 31, is known for her quick quips, not-so-kosher dating advice and, of course, her podcasting.
    Julia MacCary, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But there was no way to tell based on the way Howard burst onto the call, opening with a quip before the last of the reporters had finished signing in.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2024
  • With that being said, there were some (like us) who thought his quip was clever and hilarious.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Of course, even a good quip can’t stop the realities of growing older.
    Lisa Lerer, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • This isn’t funny in the way that MCU films are funny, either, with endless one-liners and quips.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • His quiet demeanor is a source of regular quips in the comments.
    Sam Hill, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019
  • This isn’t a film fueled by quips and cynical asides about modern life.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As one quip goes: What do affordable health care and sarcasm have in common?
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The quip only acknowledged that Vermont was in a chronic slump that started around the 1850s.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2019
  • The debate stage is an arena of quips, slogans and attacks ― with varying degrees of truth.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
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quip

2 of 2 verb
  • Calderon quipped that Nash is now part of the woodwork.
    Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Margaret Josephs quipped of the pair's truce earlier in the episode.
    Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
  • News host Justin Sylvester quipped in the comments section.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And in for Tyrus, ready to quip and shoot from the hip, writer and comedian, Kris Fried.
    Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Meanwhile, Ozzy's son Jack, quipped about a send-off for his father.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Glover quips, hinting at the state of the iconic smuggling vessel in Han’s hands.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 2 May 2018
  • Murray quipped about how Clooney was receiving the award at such a young age.
    Pablo Arauz Pena, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2018
  • Alvarez quipped afterward that the Badgers were the second-worst team to play in the Rose Bowl.
    Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Robert took over the remarks, quipping about a film that was already sweeping the evening’s prizes.
    Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Yes, the product was a bit premature, the investor quipped.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Hoffman quipped to reporters the say before the landing.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Harbaugh quipped that such a measure did not occur to him.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
  • That’s not going to happen, Mendes quipped in the video posted below.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 June 2018
  • At this point, there are too many scandals involving Trump to keep up, Wood quipped.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • That makes its dog name even more odd, but looking for logic in this one might be barking up the wrong tree, Burgess quips.
    Liz Langley, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2016
  • Brady, a Michigan alum, quipped that the only thing Vrabel did wrong was playing for the Buckeyes.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Asked about the show’s message, Ellie, 12, quipped that viewers should take a page from Cady’s book and spend most of high school hiding out in Kenya.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The host then quipped Mary Ann could likely chalk up her near faux paus to old- fashioned game show adrenaline.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Then in the final year of the decade, that changed, and a glut of anxious men arrived, kvetching, quipping and dating shiksas.
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • McCaffrey quipped about the media performances in the 40-yard dash.
    Dennis Passa, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • The image of the lonely gay man searching fruitlessly for love, quipping through the tears or not, continues to stalk the stage.
    Charles Isherwood, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2016
  • College Street, as an observer quips, is living up to its name.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Cohen quipped to The New York Times, which first reported on the clandestine effort.
    Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 8 June 2018
  • As one quips, not all money can come from the blue-chip Rockefeller Foundation.
    The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Old men, business men and boys and girls slide about on the icy spots and fall in a spirit of revelry, and laughing quips ere passed as the people shiver along.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • On Twitter, people were quick to joke about his word choice by offering up pictures of the TV show and quips about the morphing process.
    Ashley Hoffman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Mary Richardson-Lowry quipped in a post-City Council news conference.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • The words tumbled out fast, her nerves propelling the banter more than a desire to quip with a scaly terror that made her nightmares seem tame.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • And while many of those took place on the field, who can forget the tender family moments and cheeky press conference quips that earned him a place in our hearts?
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Register quips that 2024 might actually be the fabled year of Linux on the desktop after all, in China at least.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024

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