How to Use wise in a Sentence

wise

1 of 2 adjective

• That was a wise choice.
• The wisest course of action would be to leave.
• I'm a little wiser now than I was back then.
• Many have benefited from her wise counsel.
• The team would be wise to sign him.
  — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 8 May 2026
• Stuff-wise, Cole looked sharp once again.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
• Of course, stats-wise, there was nowhere to go but up.
  — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
• Cruz and Cantwell would be wise to step back.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Fold a paper in half length wise.
  — Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• Schools are getting wise to it.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
• This show has a lot going on genre-wise.
  — Kennedy French, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
• Maryland would be wise not to cross it.
  — Jeffrey S. Trimbath, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2026
• Morin is a throw-in contract-wise.
  — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• Cailee is wise beyond her years.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
• Slowing down change is rarely wise.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 24 May 2026
• That’s funny and sounds wise at the same time.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• His wise words gave me the courage for my journey.
  — Zama Magudulela, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
• This would be a very wise move late in free agency.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• There are many layers that get peeled back in this wise film.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
• But this is by no means the high end of the spectrum, price-wise.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
• DeVaux said the horse is fine health-wise.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
• Investors would be wise to keep an eye on the Strait.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• But how is the King doing these days, health-wise?
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2025
• Set a clear cap before booking so plans stay wise.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
• That is a very wise way to look at the upcoming matchup.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
• The decision to again step back from the abyss is wise.
  — Alexander Langlois, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
• And no one would ever be the wiser.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
• Candidates would be wise to give it a watch.
  — Alex Rosado, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
• Making a move to help fill a major void would be wise.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• But as a wise meme once said, getting older is the goal.
  — Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026

wise

2 of 2 verb

• If this blond cupcake can wise up, there’s hope for us all.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• City stuck at it, even as Leeds began to wise up.
  — Sam Lee, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• Some of that might not happen if a lot of people just wise up.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
• And the industry started to wise up.
  — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
• Hopefully, these GMs will wise up before they’re told to pack up their stuff.
  — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
• The market’s wising up to the luck (and greatness) of Apple.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 May 2026
• The market's behavior suggests it's wised up to the risks, and the reward just isn't there yet.
  — Bob Haber, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
• Moreover, in the fullness of time, hyenas, like guinea pigs, might wise up and become more docile and friendly.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• Team-wise the Guards rank third in the AL with 14 homers from the ninth inning on.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 28 July 2022
• Lighting and camera wise our choices strove to always be eye to eye with the characters, never looking down on them.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 28 May 2022
• If the Packers wise up, Kraft could be a league winner relative to cost at his position.
  — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 11 July 2025
• There are stories of wrestlers who hesitated to wise up their spouses and children, even if that meant faking injuries around the house.
  — Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 27 May 2016
• Relatively safe seeding-wise a few weeks ago, Xavier lost six of its last seven to fall to the danger zone on the bubble.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2022
• Eventually, Champ Bailey wised up to the fact that doing less meant getting paid more.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2025
• Numbers wise the Tide’s top 10 offense and defense have a shot against Georgia, but the eye test tells you no way.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 2 Dec. 2021
• Size wise the shrimp were on the shrimpy side for sure, but still an effective dish, particularly as a sharable or appetizer.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2019
• As those residents wise up and keep the games from their homes, the only places left will be nations that don’t let principles get in the way of a massive cash grab.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Nov. 2021
• Still, fans are hopeful that Arya and/or Sansa will wise up to Littlefinger's machinations and turn on him.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 26 Aug. 2017
• Carrying this burden and choosing to wise-up and behave differently is the consequence of this episode.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 20 Feb. 2017
• For Bank of America, there is a series of far deeper shifts taking place globally that investors need to wise up to.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• Thankfully, the beauty industry has wised up to the fact that the one-size-fits-all options do not, in fact, work for all, and a new era of high-tech blow-dryers were born.
  — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2024
• Mitla’s owners eventually wised up and invited him to learn how to properly prepare them.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Because appearance-wise the Purveyor burger is no super-babe.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 3 June 2021
• Having wised up to the idea that there could be more to life than daily quotas and waffle parties, the innies cannot content themselves with a return to the status quo.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
• These revelations should be a wake-up call for users of social media or those who are raising potential users of social media to wise up about the dangers.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
• There are indications that some academic institutions are beginning to wise up to the dangers.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Fake review merchants have also wised up to new methods to evade detection tools, especially for payment providers who are still using more basic methods.
  — Rochelle Blease, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
• Customers would eventually wise up and stop paying premium prices for GMCs.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017
• Fossil fuel industries are also wising up to the competition from renewables and are investing and lobbying to stay in the game.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 22 Apr. 2025
• Voters need to wise up to the shenanigans being played by their state leaders and the governor, or prepare to open their wallets to pay for this money pit being created by our one-party system.
  — Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017