hit back
Example Sentences
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"There's nothing in there I'm ashamed of," Brockman hit back, claiming that the journal did not include details of an outburst from Musk in 2017.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Wales hit back shortly after, keeping it among the hard-carrying forwards before shipping the ball out for workhorse Keight to power over.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Trump hit back at the chancellor on Tuesday, saying on social media, “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about!”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Saar hit back swiftly, telling his counterpart that diplomatic relations between friendly nations were not conducted online or in the media.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Since convenience-store Howie hit back at the end of December, I'd only had a couple dead men flicker through, and they’d been pale, tame, barely-even-there affairs.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
