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Example sentences for: retort

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Look at your face! was another classic retort that greeted you even when there wasn't a mirror to hand, along with: Can't you see how dirty the back of your neck is? or What's that on your back?
The Wall Street Journal 's retort: "Earth to Howard Schultz: Return from cyberspace.
Unless that moment is Everett's retort to Beachum's wife (Lisa Gay Hamilton) who cries out angrily, as if confronting a wayward savior, "Where were you all this time?"
Bryant, dazzled by her ingenious retort, babbles helplessly, "OK, good, that's a fair answer," and stumbles to his next query.
On 22 February 1989, in a full-page color advertisement in The Times , the Honeywell was severed, leaving the new company name Bull . At the same time, the big brains came up with the slogan To business problems , we say Bull , rather an unfortunate decision for two reasons: first, bull is an almost-polite shortening of bullshit , as (almost) everyone knows; second, bull (or Bull !) as a retort means `bullshit; nonsense; balderdash' and, particularly, `Whatever you said [like, “I have a business problem”] is a lot of bullshit.