Sentence examples for sharp riposte from inspiring English sources

The United States' sharp riposte after the blasts almost certainly came as little surprise to India.

"We gave them a sharp riposte with the gun mounted on the top," Lieutenant d'Orleans said.

And Gore's campaign finance piety invited a sharp riposte: He's all for putting the barn door in a lockbox after stealing the fund-raising horse.

Mackail-Smith very nearly conjured a sharp riposte, toe-poking fractionally off target after Tomlin and Boyd hadonce again cut Huddersfield's defence open.

The US president had blamed his former political ally for the Iran nuclear deal in a series of derisive Twitter posts that drew a sharp riposte from Corker, who chairs the important Senate foreign relations committee.

As David Cameron has acknowledged, that one sharp riposte encompassed a volume of speeches about social cohesion, and the difference between the terrorism of Islamic State and the teachings of the Islamic faith.

It meant that prime ministerial austerities with the truth lacked sharp ripostes: no, £8bn doesn't begin to cover the NHS crisis; no, social housing is being crippled; and, no, there's no "parity" between mental and physical health.

8. Mazda 3/Mazdaspeed 3 Japan's sharpest riposte to the VW Golf and GTI, the Mazdas are for buyers who demand more from a small car: Not just price and practicality, but fun and refinement.

Two guest judges included an uninteresting Avril Lavigne and a very tart Katy Perry, who had the sharpest riposte to Kara who went on and on about the inspiring backstory of a young man: "This is not a Lifetime movie!" No, but sometimes the Idol producers want it to be.

We came away crestfallen again, despite all the sharp attacks and crisp ripostes.

Their applause when a sharp Clarke riposte one-upped a Republican interrogator, the supercilious former Illinois governor James Thompson, played mightily on screen, as did their tearful embraces of Mr. Clarke after his testimony.