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Example sentences for: retorted

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Your what? she retorted.
"That is one paragraph out of a 2,000-point essay," Buchanan retorted, suggesting an affinity with Lindbergh.
Maureen Dowd bit first, snorting that the "the futile search for the inner Reagan had driven his biographer barking mad" (the New York Times ); Jonathan Yardley (the Washington Post ) retorted that Dowd "seems incapable of a genuinely serious thought" and commanded her and others to "Shut yo' mouf" until they had read the book.
Kass retorted that science isn't like that: modest success tends to place the bit between our teeth and can often result in advances far exceeding our expectations.
A boy's best friend is his dog, I retorted, but I can't see myself asking Jessie out on a date, can you?