Example sentences for: reprisals

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

  • He suggested threatening reprisals against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the event of any attacks on U.S. interests, anywhere, by Bin Ladin.

  • But the German army wreaked brutal reprisals on the civilians.

  • The more vulnerable communities on the lower plains paid a high price for these in the form of swift bloody reprisals.

  • No one would cheer these reprisals, but only the most twisted would shed their deepest tears for the Nazis and their supporters.

  • Inevitably, devastating bombing reprisals flattened the city.


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