Example sentences for: retaliated

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

  • He retaliated by using a free AOL account to send 5,000 copies of an obscene e-mail to everyone who had ever participated in the Prodigy discussion, including my son.

  • The British retaliated with equal savagery against the mutineers and against civilians in the country through which the relief columns passed.

  • The Manson band and its fans have retaliated in kind.

  • When President Clinton refused to accept such restrictions in the 1996 and 1997 budgets, the House leadership retaliated by threatening to slash and delay family-planning appropriations.

  • In response, the Americans, British, Dutch, and French combined forces to smash the Choshu fortified positions, and Britain retaliated for the assassination by practically leveling the town of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu.


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