mot

Example Sentences

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And with a bon mot, it’s very few mots, you know?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

Citizens' Van Saun said the bank is also tightening its appetite for new mortgage credit, but that move is mot as dramatic as that for auto loans.

From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2023

Economists would point to the folly of a course of action, and he would pull out a bon mot or caricature them as “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

The bizarre situation elicits Patroclus' zesty bon mot: "What a spring the man has! Nice dive! Think of the oysters he could come up with if he were out at sea …"

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2021

I’m an eternal stranger forced to reintroduce myself to her one bon mot at a time.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed