Sentence examples for rejoinder when from inspiring English sources

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The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was expected to give his rejoinder when he took the podium.

Mr. Sanders, however, had a quick rejoinder when it was suggested that filing a federal lawsuit was not a very punk-rock way to handle the matter.

My father had a handy rejoinder when a person asked him a question that was inappropriately personal or probing or merely rude, and I have had the opportunity to use it myself on a few occasions.

This week in an appearance on "The Colbert Report" to celebrate his milestone, Mr. Dingell was quick with a rejoinder when the comedian Stephen Colbert joked that, because he had voted for Hawaiian statehood, he deserved some of the blame for President Obama.

Brown had a snappy rejoinder when asked about the Kings' style of play.

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Why does it take you five years every single time you put an album out!?" Bonham, who is quick with rejoinders when we converse every fifteen years or so admits that she had no answer.

In a stinging rejoinder, he said: "When the full committee met Mr Howard on February 17th, the members made it very clear that they would follow the analysis wherever it led, including uncovering any faults by individuals.

'Drink just clouds you.' And I suppose I had been not much more than vaguely busy summoning up some or other deeply unmirthful rejoinder to that, when I was jerked by a pull at my elbow.

"I was a big bag of nothing put together with spit, glue and a couple of film stills," was how he once described himself in his early days as a film star, although he added the rejoinder: "Mind you, when you've shined shoes, delivered papers, made broom handles and served in hamburger joints, 75 bucks and girls to go with it was no hardship".

In other words, Belladonna of Sadness is an answer to the prayers of those whose taste in film has evolved to the point where it echoes Jeanne's rejoinder to Satan, when he asks what she wants to do with her newfound energies: "Anything... so long as it's bad".

My rejoinder is to say when the boot was on their foot they burned us at the stake.

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