retort

How to use retort in a sentence

Last week, The Lancet published a retort from a team led by Temple University biologist Enrico Bucci.

When the body goes into the retort, the first thing to burn is its cardboard box, or “alternative container” as it’s called on the funeral bill.

My grandfather’s witty retort kept coming to mind this year.

There is nothing like a plaintive retort when your case is utterly indefensible.

In conversing with foreigners, if they speak slightingly of the manners of your country, do not retort rudely, or resentfully.

Probably he lays hold of the elements of experience and casts them into a seeming retort of reveries.

The whole mass is then transferred to a retort and distilled over a slow fire.

"But my rings always make tusks more beautiful," was his retort.

KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

Women accuse men of being inconstant, and men retort that women are fickle.

She had expected a retort in kind, and it startled her to hear her exclamation sounding on through silence.

SUMMEREDITH WHARTON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985