How to Use retaliate in a Sentence

retaliate

verb

• After the company announced plans to reduce benefits, the union threatened to retaliate by calling for a strike.
• But with Owens’ help, both men chose not to retaliate and to rebuild their lives in peace.
  — al, 27 July 2022
• Putin has vowed to retaliate against any and all involved.
  — Charles Maynes, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• The United States might then retaliate with a nuclear strike of its own, bringing the world to the edge of destruction.
  — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2023
• Is Qatar likely to retaliate against the EU as relations take a dive?
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
• Bryan Abreu got the Astros out of the inning without further incident and the Mariners didn't attempt to retaliate in the bottom of the ninth.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 7 June 2022
• The naval anti-submarine drills marked the first joint exercise in six months, and North Korea promised to retaliate to the drills.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 19 Apr. 2023
• In some of the videos, staffers retaliate by launching ad hominem attacks at Gude or the other protesters.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
• If one person tries to take $100 in the early rounds, the other is likely to retaliate, and both walk away with nothing in future rounds.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Iran has vowed to retaliate against Israel and hold the country’s ally, the U.S., answerable.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
• Last week, Bush Hager detailed how her 10-year-old daughter Mila felt left out of plans with her mom and aunt — and used queso dip to retaliate.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
• After getting slapped a few times by her husband, Jaya decides to take things in her own hands and trains in martial arts to retaliate.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Israel blamed Hezbollah for the attack and vowed to retaliate.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 July 2024
• The wave of attacks also comes after Moscow promised to retaliate for Kyiv’s strike on the Crimean Bridge earlier this week.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• The next day, the victim retaliated by throwing a container of milk to the back, dousing a seventh-grader.
  — Caralee Adams, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• The decision by the US to supply advanced weapons to Ukraine has sparked concern that Russia may retaliate.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 June 2022
• To retaliate, the queen’s friends put on drag of their own and conquered the Pines by boat, a spectacle that continues to this day and now draws thousands of visitors.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• China could retaliate against the U.S. and Taiwan in other ways.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
• The United States had made the request anticipating that Iraq will retaliate against Turkey in the event of war.
  — CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• Trump has a long history of trying to use the courts to retaliate against unfavorable press.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• Iran has vowed to retaliate over the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran in late July.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
• Iran, which backs both Hamas and Hezbollah, has blamed Israel for the attacks, and is widely expected to retaliate.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 6 Aug. 2024
• Israel retaliated for the swarm of more than 300 drones and missiles with a limited strike on Iran last Friday.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
• The Sikhs are provoked to retaliate, with a plan to murder en masse Muslims leaving the village on a train traveling back to Pakistan.
  — Ajay Verghese, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
• Russia, which has denied killing civilians in Ukraine and claimed the images out of Bucha are fake, criticized the expulsions and vowed to retaliate.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
• Rolling Stone is withholding the names of the women and the specifics of their relationships, as several sources voiced fear that Majors and his team would retaliate against the women.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
• If Wall Street goes after fossil fuels, their states will retaliate in kind.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
• Israel retaliated to the largest killing of Jews in one day since the Holocaust and now a lot of innocent lives are being lost in every direction.
  — Iliza Shlesinger, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
• The near-death rancher wakes, advising his wife not to retaliate until Spencer returns from Africa.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2023
• The rally spurred by the risk of a wider Middle East war has stalled out amid uncertainty over how Israel will retaliate against Iran for last week’s ballistic missile strike.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024