"in retaliation for something" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when two parties are responding to the other's action. For example, "The country launched a missile in retaliation for the other's threat of war."
These are songs written in retaliation for something flippant or defamatory enunciated in somebody else's song.
Each murder or set of murders seemed to have been inspired by a previous one, each atrocity appeared to be in retaliation for something that had occurred the week before".
He said he had approached Mr. Soto intending to get into a fistfight in retaliation for something Mr. Soto had done to one of his friends, when Mr. Soto suddenly drew a gun and fired two bullets into his abdomen and leg.
That night, I slept uneasily, pondering that my flight back to Washington on Monday might be the one singled out in retaliation for our military strikes, something out of my control.
"All the intel folks are scrambling to figure out whether this is in retaliation for killing Uday and Qusay, a change in tactics or something else.
In retaliation for the retaliation, Israel demolished dozens of Palestinian houses in Rafah refugee camp.
Last year, it attacked PayPal in retaliation for its blocking of donations to WikiLeaks and invaded Sony's PlayStation Network in retaliation for lawsuits against PlayStation hackers.
Lawyers for Louisville said that Banker was fired for underperformance, not in retaliation for her complaints.
In November, Anonymous began attacks against Israeli sites in retaliation for Israeli military strikes on Hamas.
The kidnappings are thought to be in retaliation for the recent French intervention in Mali.
Protesters there were quick to stage arson attacks in retaliation for their rout in Bangkok.
