WISE in a Sentence
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293 example sentences for WISE, such as:
1. No one wise at all times.
2. He's wise for a man of his age.
3. Little and tender and merry and wise.
4. It is easy to be wise after the event.
5. The wise man is always a good listener.
2. He's wise for a man of his age.
3. Little and tender and merry and wise.
4. It is easy to be wise after the event.
5. The wise man is always a good listener.
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Meanings and Examples of WISE
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wise
a. evidencing the possession of inside information
a. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
Classic Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
1 The mottled wise old eyes saw deeply, saw clearly, with the directness of the savage and the child, undeterred by conscience when danger threatened her pet.
2 There was Ashley who was strong and wise and comforting.
3 She was not, she worried, strong enough to endure the routine, and she could not picture herself standing before grinning children and pretending to be wise and decisive.
4 When she did contrive to get sweetbreads at Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market the triumph was so vast that she buzzed with excitement and admired the strong wise butcher, Mr. Dahl.
5 His wise surgeon's-hands stroked her shoulder, and her irritation at his clumsiness was lost in his strength.
6 She wondered why the good citizens insisted on adding the chill of prejudice, why they did not make the houses of their spirits more warm and frivolous, like the wise chatterers of Stockholm and Moscow.
7 She hoped that the wise elders might be so tolerant as to listen to her suggestions about changing the shelving of the juveniles.
8 They were wise hands, kind hands, but they were not the hands of love.
9 With no visible connection he said, "Uncle Whit is kind of clumsy, but just the same, he's a pretty wise old coot."
10 Little and tender and merry and wise.
11 Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly of running away she had found the courage to be wise.
12 If you Tories were wise, you wouldn't arrest anarchists; you'd arrest all these children while they're asleep in their cribs.
13 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.
14 Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again.
15 Remember what I say; BE kicked by him; account his kicks honours; and on no account kick back; for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb.
Example Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1 It is a wise father that knows his own child.
2 Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
3 A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
4 It is easy to be wise after the event.
5 He's wise for a man of his age.
6 Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
7 Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
8 No one wise at all times.
9 The wise man knows he knows nothing, but the fool thinks he knows it all.
10 A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
11 Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all.
12 The wise man is always a good listener.
13 A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another.
14 A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
15 A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.