Example sentences for: reprisal

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

  • Now, a brief Israeli reprisal would seem justified to everyone."

  • H-2A's have attempted to obtain legal assistance anonymously due to fear of employer reprisal.

  • Edward was furious, and his reprisal was swift and bloody.

  • When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.

  • 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."


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