How to Use wisecrack in a Sentence

wisecrack

1 of 2 noun

• Someone in the theater was making wisecracks during the entire movie.
• Dole, in contrast, was the kid with the wisecrack that had been crafted on the spot.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• As the MCs ate up time with their wisecracks, the final round was rushed.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2019
• Shuri’s inventions lead to the coolest scenes in the movie and her wisecracks keep the laughs going.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• When readers reach that wisecrack, there are 500 more pages of this sort of thing still to come.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2021
• When all is said and done, that wisecrack may be the best thing to come out of this boondoggle.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 18 June 2018
• Notably, Brown made a point of stopping Brothers to have the ref in earshot of his wisecrack.
  — Daniel Mano, The Mercury News, 5 June 2017
• There were no wisecracks in the post-match press conference.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 12 Oct. 2017
• But like a true comedienne, Tiffani still found a way to throw a slight wisecrack into the mix as well.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 13 Aug. 2022
• George W. Bush appeared to supply a stream of wisecracks.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• The topic of injury provides the set-up for this wisecrack in most instances.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2021
• By now, everyone knows what to expect: The skating is slow, the wisecracks whiz by fast and the laughter flows as freely as the beer.
  — Andrew Keh Bryan Meltz, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• For the record, that’s a wisecrack at President Biden’s expense.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
• Junior quit baseball as a teenager, in part because the wisecracks grew to be too much.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2018
• That weather wisecrack has been big in our small talk and our social media feeds this week.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Then, to a burst of pop music and cheesy wisecracks from the announcer, starters, timers and stroke-and-turn judges took their places, and the first row of swimmers took their marks.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• So much of his bragging and stomping, his histrionics and wisecracks are all part of an act.
  — Floyd Patterson, Esquire, 5 June 2016
• Alabama set itself up for a good wisecrack on Monday, and the coach of their chief rival dunked on them the next day.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2019
• But Rothwell and the other writers wanted to make sure Kelli was more than just the wisecrack.
  — Radhika Menon, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2021
• The wisecracks among Bears players have been plentiful since the video spread across the internet.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Dominic Purpura is that guy in the back of the classroom making wisecracks.
  — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
• Caramella, caked in black and white grease paint and fake sideburns, wisecracks with his Igor sidekick.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• That also put the Bruins in a 9-3 lead on the personal foul calls, prompting some wisecracks from the West Brook fans aimed at the referees.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
• Taurasi rarely leaves a group setting without dropping a wisecrack.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 12 July 2019
• Secondly his father was a good-looking guy who played a hero who always had a wisecrack and always knew the right thing to do.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 29 June 2018
• But the title is also a wisecrack, too puffed up and self-important to be taken at face value.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The correspondent for The Daily Show had the audience rolling with his wisecracks about the commander-in-chief.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
• But when Wilder has a vision, the public wisecracks cease and exertion ensues.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Mark said the Metro employee who failed to take action or assist the rider then added insult to injury with a wisecrack.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 18 May 2017
• While infusing warmth into break-the-fourth-wall moments — we’re treated as the audience at the play-within-the play — the cast aces the show’s comedy, including slapstick and wisecracks about showbiz.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023

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wisecrack

2 of 2 verb

• Tadlock's wisecracking aside, the Red Raiders aren't built for small ball.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 June 2018
• McDaniel, a king of the one-liners, didn’t make a single joke, quip or wisecrack Wednesday.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2022
• The fast-talking, wisecracking lawyer-pol has been replaced by an old man who can’t stop talking about the past.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• Look out for a young Harrison Ford in his breakout role as the wisecracking Bob Falfa.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 24 May 2023
• Pundits were wisecracking about how bad the Lions had to be that a 31-year-old in the prime of his career would rather quit than play another down for them.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2019
• Her creators had even engineered her to talk like a wisecracking teenage girl.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 25 June 2018
• Foy is uproarious as the wise and wisecracking Aunt Tee.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• Laurie was based on Gloria, who was very funny and wisecracking and didn’t take s— from anybody.
  — Jennifer E. Mabry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Newell plays Lulu, a female whiskey business owner and wisecracking source of advice to her naive cousin Maizy, who is trying to save the town’s crop.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2023
• Meanwhile, the two wisecracking 61-year-olds responsible for setting up the game were jovial.
  — Eric Sondheimercolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• Vadym, 19, the fast-talking, wisecracking merry warrior of the bunch, is typical.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• As the technology critic Nicholas Carr recently wisecracked, these are not the robots we were promised.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• At Andrés’s other restaurants, including the other Bazaars, his chatty, wisecracking voice is all over the menu.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
• By late August, Bolsonaro’s wisecracking rope-a-dope was not enough to halt the international fallout.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2019
• Sounds like the unstoppable wisecracking force of Deadpool is going to meet the unmovable, un-laughing object of Wolverine.
  — Vulture, 10 July 2023
• In the show’s premise, his character builds robot sidekicks to keep from going insane, and the television viewer sees the the cast in silhouette wisecracking in front of a projection screen.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The two were wisecracking about rules the NBA imposed earlier this week to restrict reporter and fan access to players in order to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.
  — Nick Talbot, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• About a week after a chance pairing in a junior golf tournament, Tony Soerries was surprised to hear from the wisecracking 16-year-old who kept him laughing that summer day.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019
• Deadpool 2 (June 1) One of last year’s biggest superhero hits won’t have the surprise factor on its side, yet still has its not-so-secret sauce: wisecracking Ryan Reynolds running around with a sword and plenty of guns.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
• James Haefele, a management consultant in Oxford, Conn., subjects suspected scam callers to a blast from his air horn or puts his wisecracking teenagers on the line.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
• With wisecracking Rocket out of commission, the others get to step up their banter as the action zooms from one imaginative new environment to the next.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
• An unlikely hero finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists rescue.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2019
• On screen was Abla Fahita, a popular satirical character based on a wisecracking widow with a salty sense of humor.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Cole, 89, who debuted his glitzy, wisecracking female persona Darcelle five decades ago, has been through crushing times before.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
• The franchise has always been aimed at horror fans who don’t take the genre too seriously; as its installments have worn on, Chucky’s wisecracking, glibly sociopathic persona has set the tone for the franchise.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 June 2019
• Reports of the banter, wisecracking and wits frequently appeared in gossip columns.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
• By all accounts, Dr. Provine embodied the figure of a laughter researcher: a bearded, congenial, wisecracking presence whose own humor could straighten the spine at its wicked best.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Indeed, wisecracking is almost as central to her practice as outrage; both are age-old responses to oppression, and the former helps humanize the latter in her work.
  — Alice Newell-Hanson Sean Donnola, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Or that wisecracking Chrissy Teigen had postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter Luna.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2018
• Oh, and her weight had to be referenced—usually in some kind of mean, wisecracking way—to imply bigger people deserve to be demeaned and humiliated.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2017

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