Words similar to reprisal

Example sentences for: reprisal

How can you use “reprisal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The existing mechanisms for handling terrorist acts had been trial and punishment for acts committed by individuals; sanction, reprisal, deterrence, or war for acts by hostile governments.
The Americans burned and looted York, provoking a violent British reprisal raid on Washington.
However, workers still have no voice at the plants and "fear reprisal from bosses."
Whether Lamberth has succumbed to Klayman out of ideology, permissiveness, or fear of reprisal it is impossible to say.
(According to scholars, "letters of marque and reprisal" are, roughly speaking, the 18 th century equivalent of our small-scale military actions.)