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    retort


    retorted


    retorting


    retorts


    1. ’ I replied, biting back the rude retort which is on the tip of my tongue … how dare he make it sound as though I yo-yo all over the place! ‘At least that is my intention


    2. “But I never come later than the others!” I retort


    3. The sharp retort of metalled boot heels struck out at the early morning stillness, announcing the arrival of Danton and his scowling, out of breath companion to every inmate as they bore down on the door at the end of the corridor like cannon balls, casting their grotesquely elongated shadows across the floor and up the walls


    4. Banerjee" you retort back


    5. Desa wanted to come back with a snide retort like, 'at least I have some


    6. The evening’s background sounds of bird song and bees buzzing their way from flower head to flower head were cut in two by the sharp retort of bone breaking on hard cement


    7. to flower head were cut in two by the sharp retort of bone breaking


    8. She had caught him totally off guard and he had no retort


    9. This was not Tdeshi, Tdeshi would have had a retort that would have turned her into a bug


    10. She gave him a hooded eye, but no retort for that

    11. ‘I don’t think there is much doubt about that!’ I retort as we start walking back down the hill and she laughs


    12. ’ Jean smiled at the retort and began


    13. “Tullius, huh? What could you possibly want with him?” As soon as the Breton shot him a waspish glance in retort, the Imperial realized his latest misstep


    14. Sorex, irked by his father’s sly retort, did not wish to appear anything less than collected in front of his esteemed guest and simply chuckled


    15. She sealed that retort with a grin


    16. He had intended to leave his comments there, but quickly resumed as soon as he saw the Breton’s mouth fly open for retort


    17. Still, she knew she could not say anything in retort


    18. Terese’s retort was that, “It is madness to allow this disease to spread again


    19. ” That got Carl hot under the collar, and he almost exploded in his retort saying, “Inconclusive is what they call Adem Highlander’s bloody polygraph report! This is the Word of God!”


    20. We"ve all heard the sad tale of the chemist who lost an argument because he had no retort

    21. She blinked, caught off guard by this retort; and then she suddenly guffawed, throwing her


    22. It went off with a sharp retort that made every bird in the wood take to the air in a mad flapping of wings


    23. The stinging retort hurt Brock but he kept silent as Grey continued


    24. There was a hint of jealousy in the retort


    25. His retort was that guestrooms should be open to the public only when not occupied by those who earned the money to buy the place


    26. fish on the carts, we close the retort door, seal it, and run steam


    27. steam and fill the retort with water to cool it


    28. " Ranger snapped a retort that stopped Belver in mid sentence


    29. Hilderich withheld a more inflammatory retort and simply said:


    30. Before Ludwig could have had the chance to retort in a manner unbecoming of a doctor, Olufemi suddenly cut in:

    31. Her nostrils flared with anger instinctively and right before she could retort, the Swede came back up, with the radio in hand


    32. The rage and the humiliation made her blood boil, and one biting, cold answer after the other surfaced, but it was much too late to retort


    33. Why did he not just say something if he was that angry? Then at least she would be allowed to retort!


    34. A smart retort surfaced amidst it all, but she stopped herself


    35. Ebira's eyes turned dark with anger, but she did not retort this time


    36. This time it was serious, and Ebira did not retort


    37. “We’re in a one-hundred-story abandoned building with some Dauntless,” I retort


    38. His sister made an angry retort casting a slur on my motive for learning Afrikaans


    39. The professor, however, was shocked by Amanda and Pete’s retort to what he saw as the unequivocal threat of global warming


    40. “Which could be caused by a lot of things,” I retort

    41. The valley shook with the retort as huge holes were torn into their ranks


    42. ” she explained, brushing off the retort


    43. It was the first time I'd seen him unable to think up a witty retort


    44. She was busy typing another witty retort when she felt a couple of hands clamp down upon her shoulders and begin to massage them


    45. "She only had bare toes because we made her take off her shoes' was David’s mild retort as he went back into his magazine


    46. So my retort is “Yes, I think the idea of a square is an


    47. So my retort is “Yes, I think the idea of a square is an excellent one


    48. There came a cracking retort and not knowing whether it came


    49. Mark grinned as he nocked another arrow, and had opened his mouth to offer a playful retort, when Grakonexikaldoron Spoke


    50. “But that’s just it, Youssaf!” Surprised at the severity of his own retort, Moshe irritably flailed his arms upward as he shifted his stance slightly, “Assir’s grumbling aside, something has been bothering me since we got here! All the while we’ve been trying to fix this stuff up, it’s been nagging at me














































    1. “You haven’t even been alive for forty years,” Vinnie retorted as he shook his head in frustration


    2. ‘Cheek!’ I retorted, grabbing a handful of cleavers from the nearby hedgerow and dabbing it on him


    3. "She's told me why you're jealous of her on the ground," Herndon retorted, "so I pity you and will take this abuse from you


    4. “My life is shit, as always, Yvonne!” she retorted at once


    5. “Bull! ‘Wolf’ was a bomb; and it had Nicholson and Pfeiffer,” she quickly retorted


    6. “Promises, promises!” She retorted with a sultry smile, and turned and went to look for Becky


    7. ’ I retorted cheekily, squirming out of his reach as he tries to tickle me


    8. ‘Even then!’ He retorted laughing


    9. “You seem to have thought of everything,” Duncan retorted stonily


    10. 'Why not?' she retorted, her face tense

    11. “My Lord, are you ashamed of me as a mate?” Rayne retorted turning the question around on him


    12. “Well, drinks on Bram, then,” Alistair retorted, nudging Tom in


    13. ‘Thank you, Dad!’ Dave retorted, ‘I was under the impression that I was reasonably civilised already


    14. Let’s go then,” she retorted, then turned and set off briskly


    15. “Notoriously, I should think, by your tone and vulgar language,” retorted Mandy, then she sniffed and wrinkled her nose as if catching whiff of an offensive odor and pushed past him without a backward glance


    16. “Well, it is part of my job,” he retorted


    17. You can’t fight City Hall,” Matt retorted


    18. “Who the hell has gagged you?” retorted a voice


    19. “You’ll have to ask the cat,” retorted the Dr


    20. “Hey, don’t be insulting the apes, will ya!” I retorted

    21. “What, Rachel, what?” Rebekah retorted impatiently


    22. ” Elenir retorted fondly


    23. “Just a metaphor, dear Dena the Magnificent!” the Elf retorted consolingly with a warm smile


    24. week for the first tele-port” Rex retorted


    25. Rex retorted with an air of authority


    26. “By jumping,” retorted Lucy, “But we can use the ropes as safety lines in case anyone doesn’t make the distance


    27. ‘But we are, doc,’ retorted Josh


    28. ” I retorted in a cold voice, lowering my head


    29. “I never thought I’d hear you say that,” Carmen retorted dryly, and then realized she had nothing on but the thin hospital gown


    30. “Typical woman,” retorted Alf “Always late and having…”

    31. “Hey don’t knock it” retorted Nathan, “That guy got more women through the words of the Torah and the powders in his pocket than any priest or barman


    32. Bosco retorted, “But sir, we’re only trying to find—” He never finished the sentence because a fist came sailing out of the blackness and smashed him in the jaw


    33. ” Flesh’ailer retorted, as if he had explained it all before


    34. “Maybe it was something we said?” Felicity retorted


    35. “And that’s just what we’re planning on doing!” Alex retorted, his voice rising


    36. ‘Don’t even think about it Kaye,’ he retorted


    37. “It was impossible to anticipate this,” he retorted


    38. "No female," Grindel retorted


    39. "Nothing that man does will surprise me anymore," Aunt Martha retorted


    40. "Got it in one," he retorted, holding up his bandaged hand for my inspection

    41. "Because if I can't have a beer, then I don't see why you should," I retorted


    42. "PC me arse!" he retorted


    43. "Well I am," I retorted, fidgeting about in my seat


    44. “How would I know?” retorted Oberon


    45. “Ease up, buddy! Let’s find out what happened here,” he retorted, neck bent over to hold the phone against his ear as he wrestled with the task of putting on his pants


    46. “No, I don’t,” Beth retorted


    47. “Oh yes, you did lie!” she retorted


    48. “The library, sir!” he retorted


    49. “Oh lighten up, will you!” she retorted, combing her hair with her fingers


    50. “All right, all right,” he retorted














































    1. Adu smiled thinly before calmly retorting:


    2. Stung to the quick by Vivek’s audacity, while the man in Gautam felt like retorting, the businessman in him sought to humor him even more


    3. hypocrisy being offended at my calling you an idiot, then retorting with the worst


    4. It does not wear out because of the much retorting and its wonders do never come to an end


    5. Duncan, who understood the Mohican to allude to the fatal rifle of the scout, bent forward in earnest observation of the effect it might produce on the conquerors; but the chief was content with simply retorting:


    6. My ideas have frequently been repeated in a compressed form, and, instead of retorting to them, it was added that it was nothing but cosmopolitanism, as though this word "cosmopolitanism" unanswerably overthrew all my arguments


    7. They have borne the calamities of war without retorting them on its authors


    1. Berndt has the grace to look shamefaced as I turn to him in feigned astonishment, but retorts in kind to his friend, protesting that it wasn’t his fault if Joris had made that assumption; it was just that he hadn’t corrected him


    2. There were more shots, the sharp, short barks of the bikers’ guns answered by deeper retorts from the SUVs


    3. “Those are the retorts,” Uncle Carl explained


    4. we let the steam out of the retorts, we could heat the dryers


    5. workers no longer worked the cannery’s lines and retorts


    6. “At best you would be a medusa,” Thurlis retorts


    7. The commanding Somali angrily retorts in Arabic, ‘Shut up you two and let me think


    8. 40- The Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho Retorts his Opposers


    9. Hey, it didn’t rank alongside Oscar Wilde in the Top Ten Retorts of All Time, but it sure pissed off Crow, and that was the main thing


    10. The Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho Retorts his Opposers

    11. · The Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho Retorts his Opposers


    12. 38) The Great Humane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho Retorts his Opposers


    13. "Well, I guess Maureen skipped the part in the Book of Huldras that explains how a Huldra can appropriate lives, or maybe you just could not stay focused enough on the lesson to learn that part," Olaf retorts


    14. “So you should be familiar with the process,” he retorts


    15. Scathing retorts, insulting barbs, the subtle diss—she had a repertory


    16. “Everyone knows who their parents are,” Jacob retorts, but he’s not looking at Eugene


    17. A Fern so false; whose smile was not a smile, whose laugh was not a laugh and whose retorts to questions were meaningless


    18. ‘Everyone will know now, won’t they?’ retorts Reeves


    19. ” He retorts trying to hold back his grin


    20. However, he kept his temper, though with great difficulty, suited his retorts to his company and his supposed character, and did his best not to overstep the limits of good taste

    21. On the occasion when the fires under the first set of retorts in their shed had glowed far into the night she did not retire to rest on the rough cadre set up for her in the as yet bare frame-house till she had seen the first spongy lump of silver yielded to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon the first silver ingot turned out still warm from the mould; and by her imaginative estimate of its power she endowed that lump of metal with a justificative conception, as though it were not a mere fact, but something far-reaching and impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle


    22. doubly anxious to appear refined and feared to show their temper or make retorts in They were so lately come from nothing and so uncertain of themselves they were


    23. By this means they had found that she was living here again; her mother was scolded for "harbouring" her; sharp retorts had ensued from Joan, who had independently offered to leave at once; she had been taken at her word; and here was the result


    24. “They’d be safer in the UAI?” Devon retorts


    25. “Two Guineas,” Coxtart retorts


    26. "I own books, yes, and chemical retorts and a skeleton that was once a man, and a permanent pass to the London Historical and Scientific Museum-"


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    Synonyms for "retort"

    retort comeback counter rejoinder replication return riposte come back rejoin repay repartee response rebut respond come-back answer

    "retort" definitions

    a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)


    a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat


    answer back