Sentence examples similar to I retorted with from inspiring English sources

Feeling a bit more confident, I retort with a smile that while this may be true, we cannot be safe from drone strikes.

When the voice claimed to be with the Chabad, I retorted, "I don't care who you are — that's an inappropriate question," and promptly called security.

"Ay me" under my breath was all I could retort with.

On the BBC last year, she retorted with "How can I publish just one paper?".

"Do you mean am I going to remain vul-gahh and crass?" she retorted, with leering mock indignation.

My son retorted with a top-of-his-lungs scream, throwing his backpack at me, yelling I was mean, and kicking the back of seat until we arrived at school.

"Great — heavens, I should hope you do!" "Well, for a long time there was no reason to be sure," Mary retorted with spirit.

Williams retorted with infuriated hacks.

Stalin retorted with an expletive.

"You think that was real?" he retorted with a smile.

Alexander Pope satirized Hill in The Dunciad, to which Hill retorted with The Progress of Wit (1730).