Use retort in a sentence
Sentences ending with retort
- Miss Hopkins's breath was literally taken away, and for once she found no retort. [9]
- Somehow again the plebeian quality in that hein grated on her, and she could not resist the retort. [11]
- Then too the operations progressed slowly because that day at noon his finger had been badly cut by the bursting of a glass retort. [10]
- I take no offence, and attempt no retort. [3]
- The Colonel could not resist a retort. [9]
- I found myself listening to Monsieur de St. Gre with gravity, and I did not dare to reply that I had had evidence of Mademoiselle's aptness of retort. [9]
- Virginia laid the letter down, and tears started to her eyes as she repressed a retort. [9]
- I think we haven't 'kept company'--you and I" "It's true you haven't been a beau of mine, but I'd rather marry you than be obliged to live with you," was the paradoxical retort. [11]
More example sentences with the word retort in them
- You retort that you are not that kind of person. [5]
- Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be struck out in a lively play of assertion and retort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed. [4]
- And I marvelled where the Swabian, who was so slow of speech, found the words for retort and answer, till at length it was too much for him and he laid his hand on his hanger as a second and a sharper tongue. [10]
- Mr. Clayton now turned toward Szczepanik, and began with a taunt--a taunt which did not reach a finish; Szczepanik interrupted it with a hardy retort, and followed this with a blow. [5]
- She seemed about to retort, and then to conquer the impulse. [9]
- Eglington vaguely knew that now he was to face some trial of mind and nerve, but with great deliberation he continued dropping liquid from a bottle into the glass retort he carried, his eyes, however, watchful of his visitor, who involuntarily stared around the laboratory. [11]
- Bob Worthington was surprised at this retort, and correspondingly delighted. [9]
- While Mr. Wetherell sat meditating, upon this inexplicable retort, a retired, scholarly looking gentleman with a white beard, who wore spectacles, came out of the door leading from the barber shop and quietly took a seat beside him. [9]
- On opening the retort, there was our week's work--a lump of pure white, frosty looking silver, twice as large as a man's head. [5]
- I had a retort ready, and I saw that Mrs. [9]
- With a glass retort in his hand Eglington faced him. [11]
- We put our pile of quicksilver balls into an iron retort that had a pipe leading from it to a pail of water, and then applied a roasting heat. [5]
- He had a pang as he saw the two at the close of his meeting filtering out into the great retort of the world. [11]
- When heavy stones or kicks belabored the brazen-bound door from within, and threats were uttered in the Egyptian tongue, the Hebrews outside did not fail to retort in words of mockery and scorn. [10]
- It had but obeyed a law of our nature--an irresistible law--to enjoy and applaud a spirited and promptly delivered retort, no matter who makes it. [5]
- Nothing delights it more than the sharp retort of a witness and the discomfiture of an obnoxious attorney. [5]
- He was found lying on the floor of his laboratory with a broken retort in fragments beside him. [11]
- But she bit her lips at Cordula's swift retort "O no! [10]
- And when first Helene was presented formally she made such a witty retort to the Queen's sally that her Majesty insisted upon her coming to court. [9]
- One of the gentlemen present at the governor's quoted a remark made by the king at the time of the session--a neat retort, and with a touch of pathos in it, too. [5]
- From cliff to cliff the echo went in crashing retort and banged in lessening power, and boomed in thinner volume, and clapped weaker and weaker till a final clap could not reach across the waiting cliff. [13]
- Slowly Eglington moved back to put the retort on a long table against the wall, and Soolsby stepped forward till he stood where the electric sparks were gently hissing about him. [11]
- All the Queen's attendants now used it, and though others of lower rank did the same, she permitted it, though her ready wit would have supplied her tongue with a retort sharp enough to respond to any word which displeased her. [10]
- But not knowing any more of a gilt-edged security than that it was something to Mr. Spence's taste, a retort was out of the question. [9]
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