Sentence examples for retort after from inspiring English sources

The Australians may not have a credible retort after they appeared aimless in a 4-0 loss to Germany on Sunday.

But it was Lucas who provided the final retort after a sluggish first half in which he made only 2 of 6 shots.

Not much of a prize, you might well retort, after inspecting the scruffy, depressed mining community in the very north of the province that abuts Serbia proper and is bisected by the sluggish Ibar River.But Mr Steiner has good reason for saying that Mitrovica holds the key to Kosovo's future and hence perhaps the political future of what remains of federal Yugoslavia.

("Don't con-den-scend me, man," is Pitt's famous retort after Gandolfini's character exits the scene).

One of the very feistiest ways to tease someone is to fire back with a perfect retort after s/he says something cheeky or unsuspecting.

"It's all words, it's all soundbites," he retorted after a particularly one-sided exchange, adding that Clinton was a "typical politician: all talk, no action".

"The life sentence doesn't have any meaning for me," Esseghaier retorted after Code delivered his sentence.

But U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry retorted after the NBC interview that Snowden, unlike Ellsberg, has refused to take responsibility for his willful disclosure of U.S. intelligence.

"[Even if] rocket fire into Israel was carried out by rogue groups... aiming to challenge Hamas' regime, we hold Hamas responsible for everything that happens in Gaza," Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon retorted after a recent attack.

As Napoleon insisted, Nansouty stood up to him, finally retorting: "After all, it is not Your Majesty at any rate who can teach me to lead cavalry... ...... Despite this remark, Nansouty would continue to be given significant commands in the coming years.

His retort came after Mr. Rubio declared: "We don't need a new idea.