Sentence examples for they were replied to from inspiring English sources

She arose, and again looking out she saw him, and said--I cannot, no, at this distant time I cannot record her terms of soft silver tenderness; to me they were spoken, but they were replied to by him.

These results indicate that letters in reply by original authors were more likely than letters to the editors – to which they were replying – to contain scientific discussion, and authors' replies generally had a higher count of scientific citations than did letters to the editor.

(Twitter users, human or otherwise, use the @ sign to indicate they are replying to a message from someone else).

One particular problem is that where people are using indented or threaded comments, they tend not to quote or address the person they are replying to, since, in that view, their reply appears directly beneath the comment they are responding to.

No notice of shut-down anywhere to be found, and e-mails are not bouncing (we hope they're still being replied to since we contacted the Jooce team for comment).

"This group text message I had started was replied to but they didn't know that I could see the responses.

When others reply specifically to your tweets or you reply to others, the tweets become "threaded", so when you read replies, they are attached to the message being replied to.

Eventually "a spooky press officer" returned the call, but when asked who they were replied: "I don't really need to give you my name".

It helps to go back to the letter they sent you that you are replying to.

So basically, you can see when someone is replying to someone else but only when they're not really replying to them.

Another trend is to start headers with "Re:" so they seem to be replies to previous e-mails.