Example sentences for: reprisal

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

  • However, workers still have no voice at the plants and "fear reprisal from bosses."

  • 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.

  • Whether Lamberth has succumbed to Klayman out of ideology, permissiveness, or fear of reprisal it is impossible to say.

  • Few passages in the Constitution have been more abused than Article 1, Section 8.11, which gives Congress sole power "to declare war [and] grant letters of marque and reprisal."

  • Making no reference to the United States or to the possibility that the attack might have been a reprisal for U.S. missile attacks in Sudan and Afghanistan, it blamed terrorists who "want our communities to remain divided."


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