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Example sentences for: retort

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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?"
The Schneider Retort
Conservatives retort that liberals would never tolerate similar bigotry aimed at beliefs sacred to Jews or blacks.
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.
Emphatic negative retort expressing condemnation, defiance, hostility, opposition, refusal, rejection: As civilians we'll have to get used to using “No thanks!”