Used in a Sentence

quipped

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for quipped.

Editorial note

Amusingly enough Amazon's Irish location is almost exactly like putting your datacenter in North Dakota as notax quipped.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(intransitive) To make a quip.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of quipped gathered in one view.

verb

(intransitive) To make a quip.

verb

(transitive) To taunt; to mock with quips.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quipped.

verb

(intransitive) To make a quip.

verb

(transitive) To taunt; to mock with quips.

Example sentences

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Amusingly enough Amazon's Irish location is almost exactly like putting your datacenter in North Dakota as notax quipped.

2

I always quipped that most places I'd like to visit are only worth visiting in the summer, but man it's hard to leave Vancouver when the sun is out!

3

This was over at /r/europe i think, so eventually someone quipped that the same alcohol would make its way to Sweden and Norway, with relevant markups for each hop.

4

As a comment on a previous HN story quipped, most of the 90s ideas weren't fundamentally bad, just impossible to realize with the knowledge and technology of the time.

5

I don't think it needs to imply anything, and I wouldn't be surprised if he quipped it at one point and the journalist went with it.

6

We also quipped that we made free software affordable.

7

I once quipped that Orwell was an optimist.

8

A friend of mine who programmed solely in Forth (and who taught me just about everything I know about the language) quipped that 'C is such a great language'.

9

It might turn out like the violent video game ban case from a few years back, when Justice Kagan quipped that she (or rather, he clerks) were familiar with games such as Mortal Kombat.

10

I recently quipped to some friends that if there's 7 dog years in a human year, there's 2^y computer years in a human year; so a 6 year old computer is 64 in computer years.

Quote examples

1

As someone once quipped: "A green light only means it's legal to cross."

2

A manager of mine once quipped "The grass is always greener somewhere else, but sometimes that is because it's astroturf."

3

With a bit more context: "Orowan had quipped that there might, indeed, be some truth to the story about glass flowing.

4

As someone quipped on Twitter, "soon enough postmen will block access to office buildings nationwide to protest the widespread use of email".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use quipped in a sentence?

Amusingly enough Amazon's Irish location is almost exactly like putting your datacenter in North Dakota as notax quipped.

What does quipped mean?

(intransitive) To make a quip.

What part of speech is quipped?

quipped is commonly used as verb.