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
  • One wisecrack went too far, in the eyes of the people whose eyes sit below red caps.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2026
  • One last wisecrack to remember his coach by.
    — Daniel Brown, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • His wisecracks were kept to a minimum.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Boys in blue training kits gather in pockets of shade and trade wisecracks.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That weather wisecrack has been big in our small talk and our social media feeds this week.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Taurasi rarely leaves a group setting without dropping a wisecrack.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 12 July 2019
  • 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
  • Junior quit baseball as a teenager, in part because the wisecracks grew to be too much.
    — SI.com, 27 June 2018
  • The topic of injury provides the set-up for this wisecrack in most instances.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • So much of his bragging and stomping, his histrionics and wisecracks are all part of an act.
    — Floyd Patterson, Esquire, 5 June 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hamp also started the conversation with a wisecrack of her own.
    — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Caramella, caked in black and white grease paint and fake sideburns, wisecracks with his Igor sidekick.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • For the record, that’s a wisecrack at President Biden’s expense.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 11 May 2023
  • 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
  • Barry Diller was full of wisecracks tonight at the PGA Awards.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Dominic Purpura is that guy in the back of the classroom making wisecracks.
    — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
  • The wisecracks among Bears players have been plentiful since the video spread across the internet.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The other quarter is made up of whatever wisecracks your veteran waiter is sure to dole out.
    — Bon Appétit, 9 July 2019
  • But when Wilder has a vision, the public wisecracks cease and exertion ensues.
    — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The wisecrack clearly landed with the audience, though the cameras picked up the late-night host’s face dropping.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 June 2026
  • But Rothwell and the other writers wanted to make sure Kelli was more than just the wisecrack.
    — Radhika Menon, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2021

wisecrack

2 of 2 verb
  • Her creators had even engineered her to talk like a wisecracking teenage girl.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 25 June 2018
  • Tadlock's wisecracking aside, the Red Raiders aren't built for small ball.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • McDaniel, a king of the one-liners, didn’t make a single joke, quip or wisecrack Wednesday.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Some of us imagined him as eternally youthful, wisecracking, knowingly amused.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Look out for a young Harrison Ford in his breakout role as the wisecracking Bob Falfa.
    — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 24 May 2023
  • As the technology critic Nicholas Carr recently wisecracked, these are not the robots we were promised.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Reports of the banter, wisecracking and wits frequently appeared in gossip columns.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here’s where to catch up with every stage of Tarantino's arc, from wisecracking upstart to Hollywood royalty.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Cole, 89, who debuted his glitzy, wisecracking female persona Darcelle five decades ago, has been through crushing times before.
    — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Maya wisecracked that everybody already knew the cure for homosexuality—fame.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Sounds like the unstoppable wisecracking force of Deadpool is going to meet the unmovable, un-laughing object of Wolverine.
    — Vulture, 10 July 2023
  • Scuderia was staffed by a crew of young, wisecracking gear-heads, who, after finishing their shifts, stayed late drinking beer and rehabilitating decrepit old bikes for fun.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ferrari has a tiny wisecracking mother named Adalgisa delightfully played by Daniela Piperno.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Or that wisecracking Chrissy Teigen had postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter Luna.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Reilly is a down-on-his-luck PI struggling to keep the lights on for his wisecracking receptionist Janet (Karen Rodriguez).
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 May 2026
  • Jon Manfrellotti played Gianni, a wisecracking contractor and one of Ray's friends.
    — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025

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