| There's little I enjoy more than inventing new ways to sling words together to provide a bon mot, or a mot juste, if it pleases you better. |
| There was a bon mot, which blazed with all the soft brilliancy of sheet lightning. |
| I must leave behind me the remembrance of a bon mot, or I shall be forgotten. |
| He was particularly good, for example, at rendering that slightly quizzical arch of the eyebrow and half-smile that precedes the bon mot. |
| The bon mot I was about to utter apropos of an opera I had never heard has left my mind entirely. |
| I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week. |
