Example sentences for: retort

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

  • flame an ill-considered, insulting e-mail or Usenet retort.

  • Bryant, dazzled by her ingenious retort, babbles helplessly, "OK, good, that's a fair answer," and stumbles to his next query.

  • The Schneider Retort

  • 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?"

  • To assuage social convention, however, and to validate Prudie's suggested retort, perhaps you and the father-to-be might consider legally tying the knot ...


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