Example Sentences

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But she wittily captured the changing fortunes of women in the modern world.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

Set largely in and around a house nestled in the woods, Sciamma’s Lilliputian tour de force is a wittily modern fairy tale and model of elegant narrative economy.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

Brown wittily masters the art of pastoral bluster; Hall is simply stunning as a woman who sees the painful truth about her marriage — and defies anyone to criticize her for sticking it out.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

That’s one of the wittily loopy loops of “A Strange Loop,” which illuminates with unbridled comic energy the desires, insecurities, aspirations and demons of a young, queer Black man.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022

"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath