Sentence examples for retort from high-quality English sources.

• Wildly optimistic, retort bidders.

• Cohen shot back with a stinging retort on Eater.

• Keller was ready with a quick retort, heard it inside his head, but his lips couldn’t form the words.

• The Florida congressman criticized the past substance use by then-presidential candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, prompting a retort from Democratic Rep.

• Opponents of the reform retort that Illinois lawmakers recklessly underfunded the pension system for years.

• The couple recently welcomed twins, Heidi and der Treppenwitz (the concept of thinking of a clever retort only when it is too late).

• Their critics retort that vulnerable teenagers are losing themselves in an online world which adulates anyone who comes out as trans.

• To this argument, the sceptic will retort that no rogue with rockets, however incorrigible, would dare attack America and risk annihilation.

Use retort in a sentence.

• The water companies retort that they have paid little corporation tax because the government gave them huge allowances to encourage investment.

• In an equally famous retort to the general, one of the most celebrated Urdu poets of the post-1947 era, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, said it was "the only liberated territory".

• When the clueless yet strident Elena has it out with her and accuses Mia of making terrible choices as a mother, she dishes out the obvious retort of what choices?!

• Some think Ms Yingluck will re-invigorate the base, but others retort that she is untested and may put off voters tired of the relentless focus on the fortunes of one man—and now one family.

• Kirk, a Republican, and urged him to apologize to his opponent, Representative Tammy Duckworth, a veteran who lost her legs in the Iraq war, after his retort at the debate in Springfield, Ill.

• Here, Aristotle might retort, and he does so retort with respect to Heraclitus, that people can utter such words, but cannot really believe what they are saying (Metaph IV 3 1005b23–26).

• Rick, all by himself, burst out laughing, because cabinetmaking was one of the funniest things in the world, maybe, or because he was one retort behind and he wanted to be sure he got the joke this time.

• When New Zealand's Green Party MP Chloe Swarbrick delivered her now infamous ‘OK, boomer’ retort after being interrupted in parliament, she reopened a fault line in today’s politics: the generational divide.

retort sentence examples

• Despite the reassuring tone of the president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the oil-producing cartel, a casual observer might retort that panic is justified: the oil market seems in turmoil.

• The inscription came up at his confirmation hearing, as a retort to criticism of his American ties: “Is it bad if an experienced eighty-year-old diplomat calls a forty-something-year-old child of this revolution a ‘worthy adversary’?”

• Roberts' questioning wasn't the first time "OK, boomer" has been used by a prominent person in government — in November, a 25-year-old lawmaker in New Zealand used the retort in the country's legislature when an older lawmaker interrupted her speech during a debate on climate change.

• O’Halloran stood tailors of malt, hot, all round and told the story of the retort he had made to the chief clerk when he was in Callan’s of Fownes’s Street; but, as the retort was after the manner of the liberal shepherds in the eclogues, he had to admit that it was not as clever as Farrington’s retort.