Example sentences for: retorted

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

  • 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.

  • With what acerbic suavity would he have retorted to Katherina's “..

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

  • the unidentified envoy retorted.

  • 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.


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