quick-witted

How To Use quick-witted In A Sentence

• Life has made the children brave, quick-witted and self-reliant, but their parentless hearts are hungry, and that longing shapes their actions. Children's Books: 'The Emerald Atlas'
• Undemonstrative, quick-witted, alert and intelligent: he has it all.
• Jim Norton plays Finian with Irish charm; his Finian is a lovable conniver blessed with a glint in his eye and an endless supply of quick-witted retorts. Crazytown, Missitucky
• Within 18 months, he had fallen in love with a pretty, quick-witted copygirl, Barbara Stone, and after a terrifying, if occasionally thrilling, baptism of snootiness by her family — New Year’s at Arturo Toscanini’s house, a frightening experience with a finger bowl — he married her. The Gelb Family
• He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
• He was a good guy - quick-witted, intelligent and funny when the right moment arose.
• Unfaithful, sly, smooth-talking and quick-witted, 350 million people tuned in from around the world to find out who shot him.
• It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics.
• A very smart and quick-witted comic, Wuhl always has tons of energy that holds the film together and keeps it moving.
• Frightened but quick-witted, the shapely skin diver outmanoeuvres the silent predator and stays low among the coral and such, where the shark can't get her.