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Example sentences for "retorted the"

  • Nonsense," retorted the baroness; "you could not have entertained any alarm on the subject, because you are perfectly well aware that I have had for a month in my service the very best coachman in Paris.

  • Ah, that's all very fine," retorted the woman.

  • But the facts are there--I've given them to you," retorted the commissary a little nettled.

  • Anyhow, I'll get square with you," retorted the other, exasperated by M.

  • There's better reason to argue that the American never did it," retorted the judge.

  • Yes, by old Madge," retorted the landlord, sturdily.

  • T is the very discipline she needs," retorted the wife.

  • Keep it a week and 't will shave you itself," retorted the joker, and this allusion to the steady depreciation of the colony paper money called forth another laugh.

  • At least he is no indentured servant," retorted the girl, in her irritation, walking away from the stable.

  • Wait, wait, I am coming to the second mistake you made," retorted the oracle.

  • Then Captain Kirton must ask," retorted the dowager, who was sitting down to her letters, which she had left unopened since their arrival in the morning, in her anxiety for other interests.

  • If you wanted your breakfast as much as I want mine, you'd let Pike alone," retorted the clerk.

  • When one has to live as I do, one has to do many things decent and indecent," retorted the countess-dowager sharply.

  • I know better," retorted the dowager, completely losing her temper.

  • Much good I should do the inquest, or the inquest do me," retorted the clerk.

  • Course my name isn't Gibson, if it's Dobson," retorted the farmer.

  • Anything that is sold now will go at private sale," retorted the auctioneer.

  • And you," retorted the ghost, "will be able to advertise for permanent employment at a fixed salary.

  • It is all very well," retorted the mouse, "for people who haven't the capacity for anything better.

  • There was a time," retorted the banker, "when you did not refuse to accept it.

  • You have no right to," retorted the casuist; "you've known her longer.

  • It is because you won't let it alone where it belongs, sir," retorted the Colonel.

  • Well, sir, I am not," retorted the Judge, like lightning.

  • It strikes me as positively high," retorted the governor.

  • I thought as much," retorted the Captain.

  • She is not a chicken, and she does not spend eight hundred a year on her dressmaker," retorted the Captain.

  • Small thanks for your congratulations," retorted the Irishman.

  • I decline to have anything to say about your case," retorted the Doctor, whose feeling towards the Idiot was not surpassingly affectionate.

  • If you prescribed for me once or twice I think it likely I should be translated in short order," retorted the Idiot.

  • We'd rather give you our money right out," retorted the Doctor.

  • Columbus didn't know this was America," retorted the Idiot.

  • It made me laugh," retorted the Idiot, "and that is more than half the professedly funny poems we get nowadays can do.

  • You ought to be glad that I've enough sense to know what my rights are," retorted the Head.

  • It is your fault that my right leg is bent, making it shorter than the other, so that I limp badly," retorted the Soldier.

  • I can see plainly that you are a bear, and a mighty poor specimen of a bear, too," retorted the girl.

  • I was just goin' to ask you to stop snorin'," retorted the soldier.

  • You've got your nerve," retorted the stranger.

  • I'm in no mood for joking, young man," retorted the other, rising.

  • The topic does not interest me, sir," retorted the other, and the glance of his eye was baleful, but uneasy.

  • I should feel extremely insulted, dear old fellow, if you thought it necessary to thank me," retorted the Briton, heartily.

  • And my command to you," retorted the girl, "is different.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retorted the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acetic ether; become acquainted; currant juice; defence against; had decided; harvest festival; little warm; lower part; more commonly; oblique direction; opened unto; other animals; poor priests; postage prepaid; quite enough; retorted the; see you; speak against; this animal; this rule; throw them; why not