return the compliment
Example Sentences
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When Grande tried to return the compliment, Eilish quipped back, “This is not about me, ma’am.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
If you wish to return the compliment, blink and your cat might blink back.
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2022
Prince Charles will return the compliment in a speech he makes at the handover ceremony on Monday evening.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2021
You knew he’d have to return the compliment one day.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2019
He said: "Come now, Miss Vera Claythorne, aren't you going to return the compliment?"
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
