How to Use riposte in a Sentence

riposte

noun

• Her riposte is to question the morality of the law and the king who issued it.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
• In that sense, my book is a riposte to that kind of right-wing mythmaking.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• As important, the hearing was a visual riposte to the left’s wild claims.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Onstage at the Duke of York’s Theatre, no plummy riposte gets the better of her.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Rest assured Xavier should have a strong riposte for any offer Louisville makes.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Klobuchar said, in a riposte that lacked substance but made up for it in emotional IQ.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• Adam Zamoyski’s book is a worthy riposte to that of Andrew Roberts.
  — Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• This broken rhythm was also a sort of riposte to the fashion system.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 July 2020
• Cher was 43 at the time, and flipped the yearning lyrics into a fierce riposte to aging, while straddling a cannon.
  — CNN, 20 May 2021
• Here are some of the best ripostes, but honestly you can easily get lost in the replies section to any of his tweets.
  — SI.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• That threat received a strong riposte the following day.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
• His riposte on the stump that voters should just go about their lives and stop worrying is unlikely to sell.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
• That was more like a riposte to first lady tradition and a statement of intent: I will not be forced into the mold that was made for me.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
• For those of us who’d rather stay home than wear a camel blazer, bright colors were a retina-searing riposte.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2019
• The riposte came from Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister.
  — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 21 May 2017
• Increasingly, many will shift their approaches in the course of the game, responding to the lunges, the parries and the ripostes of their opponents.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Yet Tillerson apparently doesn't see the need for a U.S. riposte.
  — chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Three goals for England in the team’s opening match was their immediate riposte.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• Its June 1-2 release also serves as a riposte to the media attention around Simpson’s death on April 10.
  — Denise Brown, Variety, 2 May 2024
• The riposte to cynicism starts with politicians who forsake outrage for hope.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• His lawyers have offered relatively little in the way of riposte—and have been pilloried for it.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• So Putin settled on a riposte that addressed the December diplomatic spat rather than the sanctions.
  — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2017
• And the words of an English prime minister of that epoch, Lord Palmerston, offer another riposte.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2021
• The sure-to-arrive riposte from the former president duly followed.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Investors and analysts following the to-and-fro on Capitec were left perplexed by the accusations, the bank’s riposte and the central bank’s statement.
  — Franz Wild, Bloomberg.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Though the bout is ostensibly just for fun, the resentment coursing between the men quickens each lunge, riposte and parry.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• Since last summer, the Instagram account @violintorture has offered a riposte to the centuries-old craft of violin-making, or lutherie.
  — Jennifer Gerste, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
• But there’s also another argument: for the nude as art, for the nude as autonomy, for the nude as a riposte to the stuffy traditions of art history.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 May 2022
• The move set off a public riposte from the Sudanese military, which insisted the Egyptians were there on a training exercise.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• Piquette is wine’s riposte to hard seltzer — a light, low-alcohol wine made by refermenting grape skins that would normally go to compost or be thrown away.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2021

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024