How to Use retort in a Sentence

retort

noun

• In a press conference for the film back in 2012, Craig was asked if Bond's retort was meant as a bluff.
  — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The next year, in 2006, Dr. Ballard published a lengthy retort.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The retort is funny, ouchy, apt — and sounds like earned wisdom.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• Their six 3-pointers combined were a retort to Creighton’s daring them to shoot.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
• My retort is your grumpiness about consuming less beef and more beets is short lived.
  — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Against this backdrop, Schuyler’s push to include Lazarus’ poem on the statue was a retort to nativism.
  — Elizabeth Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Still, the three field goals and lone rushing touchdown by Dominique Johnson were borne of bully ball for which the Longhorns had no retort.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Sep. 2021
• The room is strewn with glittering retorts, cylinders, phials.
  — Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Those initial barbs from Mr. Munger prompted a sharp retort from the brokerage.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• Whoa, the retort goes, this was just a toddler, perhaps around no older than 3 years old (per the estimate of the heroic driver).
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Aha, some retort, all of this might lead to a reduction in conflicts by a semblance of mutual.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• My comment to that effect drew a sharp retort from my translator.
  — Lisa Kristine, CNN, 3 July 2021
• Their best trick is a kind of prosperity gospel, a towering retort to the naïve bleeding hearts shouting up at them from the ground floor.
  — Michael Friedrich, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Aha, some retort, all of this might lead to a reduction in conflicts by a semblance of mutually.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• At the same time there were downtown residents and others who argued that a retort to terrorism — and what the neighborhood needed to come back to life — was a place for the arts.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• For decades, these final two questions have served as the ultimate retort for Americans who refuse to look backward for progress.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
• Moreno made noises into the microphone and offered a retort while his team blared music through a boombox.
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• That’s my retort to anyone who ever says a degree in art history is useless.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• The retort is that the CMS should have the authority to negotiate prices directly.
  — Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Lasso’s retort to all likely would be to simply offer a smile and his trademark homemade biscuit.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• In a retort that underscores the hostility running through the office, Deputy Dist.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• The best retort is that Democrats do not really have working legislative control of the Senate anyway.
  — David Faris, The Week, 21 Apr. 2022
• Most people who identify as funny learn to make people laugh in the short term, at the level of quips and retorts; to come up with a humorous turn of events is another thing.
  — Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 June 2023
• The mayor's endorsement appeared to be a kind of retort to the allegations in the story about the shadowy groups that support the election of a number of city candidates.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2021
• Friends and acquaintances say that sort of congenial, yet quick retort is vintage Reinhart.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Around the vitrine where the book is splayed open, contemporary artists like Judith Schaechter and Emma Helle respond with a feminine retort.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• Lucky’s retort did not directly mention his grocery store or the Anchorage Liquor Store.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• That statement brought an instant retort from Whitmer, a Democrat who has been governor since 2019.
  — Paul Egan, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
• In the characters’ first encounter since breaking up, also the opening scene of the novel, Sabrine doesn’t have a snappy zinger or retort when speaking to Lora, the vampire who broke her heart.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 26 Dec. 2021
• In other words, a defiant retort to stereotypes about Appalachia.
  — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024