Example sentences for: retorted

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

  • 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.

  • A boy's best friend is his dog, I retorted, but I can't see myself asking Jessie out on a date, can you?

  • "That is one paragraph out of a 2,000-point essay," Buchanan retorted, suggesting an affinity with Lindbergh.

  • Your what? she retorted.

  • Similarly, when someone asked why he and Atta never laughed, Shehhi retorted, "How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?"


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