Sentence examples for rejoinder from high-quality English sources.

• See Pérez Laraudogoita (1999) for a rejoinder.

• Murray, outraged, wrote a memorable rejoinder:

• “Madam, I should like some tea,” was the sole rejoinder she got. 

• And if some scientists complain that all this will make their work costlier and harder, there is an obvious rejoinder.

• (This sort of rejoinder may be found in Agar (1993).)

• See also Zimmerman (2012) and a rejoinder by Smith (2012).

• Two centuries later, the poet Richard Wilbur wrote a rejoinder:

• The rejoinder to such a revisionary view of the role of intuitions takes various forms.

Use rejoinder in a sentence.

• The most common rejoinder to Fodor’s innateness argument is to deny that HF is the only viable model of concept learning.

• A phrase tagged on the Lee statue in the days after the article was published seemed to offer a rejoinder: “YOUR TAX STATUS IS RACIST.”

• Not surprisingly, then, interpreters have read Anselm's reply to Gaunilo primarily in order to find his rejoinder to the Lost Island argument.

• Publishing a rejoinder to an article is one thing; requesting its erasure is another, conventionally reserved for cases involving fraudulent data.

• Y's rejoinder cannot be a contradictory of the content of X's claim, since the (de jure) election of Bush rendered both X's and Y's statements true.

• (For a critique of this reply, see Talbott 1992; for Craig’s rejoinder, see Craig 1993; and for a critique of Craig’s rejoinder, see Seymour 2000a.)

• The moment where Huck, having played a mean practical joke on Jim, has to deal with the force of Jim’s rejoinder, is the one that sets the heart, and the book, beating.

• ., see Goodman & Greenland’s comment of which PLOS would only publish a brief redaction, and Jager & Leek’s analysis (which has 6 comments and a rejoinder following it).

rejoinder sentence examples

• Another possible rejoinder would point out that we have extremely good grounds for believing that there are mountains and to suggest that the complaint that p is counterintuitive is merely the claim that not-p is extremely well-justified.

• “You shall not get off in that way,” rejoined Stryver, shouldering the rejoinder at him; “no, Sydney, it's my duty to tell you—and I tell you to your face to do you good—that you are a devilish ill-conditioned fellow in that sort of society.

• Passenger complaints about rises in fares – they will go up by an average by another 2.3 per cent in January – are often met with the rejoinder that more people are travelling by rail than ever before and that it’s only fair that passengers fork out, rather than the general taxpayer.

• His rejoinder to Clinton’s criticism of Trump’s rhetoric against immigrants, Muslims, prisoners of war and women was to falsely pin conspiracy theories surrounding Obama’s birthplace on Clinton’s 2008 campaign – even though Trump rose to political prominence on a crusade to obtain the president’s birth certificate.