How to Use rejoinder in a Sentence

rejoinder

noun

• The article was a stinging rejoinder to her critics.
• But once Trump chimed in, Biden was quick with a rejoinder.
  — Zeke Miller, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• His team had prepared him for it and had rejoinders at the ready.
  — Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2019
• The Whittle School is his rejoinder to the many skeptics and doubters.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
• For one night at least, there would be no open rejoinder.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 13 Dec. 2017
• And yes, the obvious rejoinder to that the White House sometimes struggles with the truth.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• The focus on rap feels like a rejoinder to the melody-forward Igor.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• In its own small way, the new Rolling Stone list feels like just the rejoinder to Hill's comments that fans have been waiting for.
  — Brandon Tensley and Leah Asmelash, CNN, 26 Sep. 2020
• The next day, Jeff Henry shot back with a fiery rejoinder to his brother and Schexnailder.
  — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 10 Apr. 2018
• On July 1, Warholm brought it down to 46.7, which felt like either a brazen rejoinder to Benjamin, or a sign of things to come.
  — Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2021
• And on top of that, the movie felt like a cruel rejoinder to anyone who’d ever believed that the once-red-hot Shyamalan could right the ship.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 July 2021
• That was when Robert offered a rejoinder to his brother.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Mrs. Clinton, in a measured tone and with a tight smile, responded with a harsh rejoinder of her own.
  — Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2016
• The movie pumps a lot of blood and viscera with the occasional witty rejoinder.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• That song is a rejoinder to hip-hop boasting in line with the hit satires made by Macklemore, an artist he’ll inevitably be compared to.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019
• Yet the ultimate rejoinder to the father of the joke may be Ma’s own attitude today.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2021
• Belle's rejoinder was a middle finger salute from the outfield with his right hand held behind his back.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The rejoinder was spoken to Fisher but plainly addressed to Kagan, sitting just to his right on the bench.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• The flags represent a steadfast rejoinder to those who believe such symbols have no place at a Catholic school.
  — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• She's been tough in debates and unafraid to deliver a sharp rejoinder to a rival.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
• In an early, much longer version of this story, the rich jerk was a young woman, and Frank had an exquisite rejoinder to Have a nice day.
  — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• My rejoinder to that would be that the idea that Joe Biden could return a lot of those white working-class voters to the Democratic fold could turn out to be a mirage.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
• Cheney’s rejoinder is that hers was a vote of conscience, a word and concept that some of her critics need to reacquaint themselves with.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
• The game serves as a warning and a rejoinder: the future is coming, but it is built not by servos and fiber optics, but by the decisions of people.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
• The Israeli head of state was describing his nation’s horror over the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 when the pope issued a blunt rejoinder.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• But, in recent years, Fukuyama has been troubled by the rise of populism and has offered a weak rejoinder to it in his book Identity.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• Souza often offered a trolly rejoinder and laid bare just how many norms Trump was breaking.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
• The effects of the coronavirus pandemic are a sobering rejoinder to such hopes.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
• But Biden’s rejoinders were no match for Trump’s antagonism.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
• The drop is a partial rejoinder to those who said New York couldn’t get safer unless and until Albany wholly scrapped misguided bail reforms passed in 2019 and amended thrice since.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024