He began his speech with an apothegm that made the audience laugh and then think.

The old philosopher's apothegms, brief yet piercing, guided generations of students.

His apothegmic remarks, though brief, cut to the heart of the issue and swayed the entire council.

The elderly professor spent the afternoon apothegmatising, offering terse, witty truths to anyone who would listen.

When he recounts his adventures, he apothegmatises each episode into a punchy maxim that the crowd repeats.

She tried to apothegmatise her mentor's wisdom into short, memorable lines for the commencement speech.

She apothegmatised her years of research into a single memorable line.

At the symposium, the apothegmatists traded sharp one-liners that left the audience both amused and thoughtful.

As an apothegmatist, she spent decades collecting and composing pithy sayings that friends still quote.

Her apothegmatic remarks cut through the noise, leaving everyone with something to ponder.