Sentence examples for retorting from inspiring English sources

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retorting

verb

Present participle of retort

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After two weeks of rioting in France, Americans are mockingly retorting that isolation and failure occur everywhere and not only, some might add, in France.

The McArthurs denied this, retorting that they sell cakes to many gay people; it was the slogan that neither they nor their staff could write.

The Tories are retorting that the Lib Dems are panicky and juvenile.

Two years ago, speaking to a financial analyst in a televised broadcast, he responded to one question he disagreed with by retorting "that's why I'm richer than you".

Not so, said Brady, retorting that everyone talked to themselves.

At the time – which was before the novel had won the Prix Goncourt – Houellebecq was rather persuasively dismissive about the allegations, retorting that his detractors understood very little about either literature or his writing methods.

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At one stage he said that whenever he criticised his Conservative colleagues in the House of Lords – about, for instance, the commercialisation of the National Health Service, the neglect of housebuilding or light-touch regulation of the financial system – they were always  able to retort that New Labour had started it.

"This is not an episode of Celebrity Big Brother," retorted Gillard.

My first instinct was to retort: "Why do you focus on the slums and not on the positive stories?

Daldry could hardly look more mischievous as he retorts: "It's all basically the same management skills".

"Ah, but it's traditional for the woman to change," they might retort: "neither of us really think it's that important, but we wanted to have the same name, and it just made more sense to go with tradition".

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