Sentence examples for retort to something from inspiring English sources

It was a retort to something he'd said that was really stupid, if you want to know.

Then the retort to 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is 'There is no alternative to there being something'.

The film was a retort to media representations of 30-something women who were either career-obsessed or so desperate to get married that they were driving men away.

She'd just told me she hated me for maybe the hundredth time we were drunk, both of us, as I've said, the encounter on the road the tipping point and no going back and I was going to retort, going to say something incisive like "Yeah, me, too," when I felt something hit my shoulder.

This is a retort to Thicke's line, "I'll give you something to tear your ass in two".

"When I'm committed to something, I'm committed to the end," Beckham said, a mild retort to some of the criticism he received earlier in his M.L.S. career, including from his American teammate Landon Donovan.

The proper retort to what many people feel is do-nothing politics is do-something voting.

They are also a retort to a culture where a girl's coming of age is turned into something shameful.

The obvious retort to this is that our judgements about the way things are tending must involve an element of faith which is something that in other contexts Harris has hoped to escape.

If you say, "You clearly didn't pass the test because your intelligence is below average" (while possibly true), the other is going to feel immediately wounded and probably retort with something to top you, something ridiculous, like "I'd rather not pass tests than have a face only a mother could love, like yours".

His retort to the latter?