retorted

Example Sentences

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Andre retorted with mock indignation to a laugh from the audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen retorted that a US acquisition of Greenland was "out of the question".

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

"If you throw me under the bus, OK, that's what I'm going to be," she retorted.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Told baldness is generally seen as an aesthetic problem covered out-of-pocket, Lee retorted that young people with thinning hair view their plight as a “matter of survival.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

“You have to lie down and not worry about the clinic,” she retorted.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh