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Example sentences for: retaliated

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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.
President Bush purposely mispronounced "Saddam Hussein" to annoy the Iraqi leader, while Iraqi newsreaders retaliated by mispronouncing Bush so that, in Arabic, it meant "nothing."
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.