RETALIATE in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for RETALIATE, such as:
1. He never said a single word in retaliation.
2. They're pursuing a strategy of massive retaliation.
3. What he did in retaliation is wrong and unforgiveable.
4. If you are rude to me, I shall retaliate with equal rudeness.
5. Wait until you lose no loss to know what lives in retaliation.
2. They're pursuing a strategy of massive retaliation.
3. What he did in retaliation is wrong and unforgiveable.
4. If you are rude to me, I shall retaliate with equal rudeness.
5. Wait until you lose no loss to know what lives in retaliation.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of RETALIATE
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retaliate
v. take revenge for a perceived wrong
v. make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
Classic Sentence:
1 In spite of various very natural temptations to resent and retaliate, Amy adhered to her resolution all the next day, bent on conquering her enemy by kindness.
2 She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.
3 The stout refusal had been like a slap in the face of the furious North and retaliation had come swiftly.
4 Now, with a start of inner wonder, Lily felt that her thirst for retaliation had died out.
5 Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor's confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight.
6 Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
7 The bitterest fighting, the most brutal retaliations, were just beginning.
Example Sentence:
1 However, attempting to retaliate is either futile or dangerous ethically.
2 The nightly incursion and hit-and-run raid of our neighbors across the border tried the patience of the country to the point where we decided to retaliate in force.
3 If you are rude to me, I shall retaliate with equal rudeness.
4 Wait until you lose no loss to know what lives in retaliation.
5 He never said a single word in retaliation.
6 They're pursuing a strategy of massive retaliation.
7 What he did in retaliation is wrong and unforgiveable.