Explore Respond through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like react or move. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Respond in a sentence
Related words
Respond meaning
- To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
- To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
- To correspond with; to suit.
Using Respond
- The main meaning on this page is: To say something in return; to answer; to reply. | To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response. | To correspond with; to suit.
- Useful related words include: react, act, move, answer.
- In the example corpus, respond often appears in combinations such as: respond to, to respond, not respond.
Example sentences (20)
Claiming that he will definitely respond to the letters, Mann added, “Governor Sahib, sometimes it takes time to respond to letters.
When they respond to an incident, they will be better prepared to organize and respond to the incident more effectively.
Make sure you empower people to respond urgently to prevent, protect and respond," he said.
These unsung heroes are putting themselves in harms way with each call they respond to, each time they respond to a call for difficulty breathing, or calls for other potential symptoms.
What he is responsible for is his failure to respond promptly, and then his perverse and counterproductive choice of how to respond when action could be avoided no longer.
Fadi underwent intensive military training to prepare explosives and explosive devices and was briefed on how to respond to the security inspection at the Erez Crossing from Gaza to Israel as well being trained as how to respond to questioning by the ISA.
I would see how people would react and respond to my dad and how people would respond to my mother.
People who engage in instrumentalized racism do so not necessarily because they themselves are “racist” on an individual level, but because they believe that voters will respond — and perhaps only respond — to racism.
Sayyed Nasrallah recalled his threat that if the Israeli attacks on Syria claim any of Hezbollah members, the Resistance will respond in Lebanon, adding that Hezbollah will respond to the Zionist airstrikes overnight on Syria in Lebanon.
The exercise involved multiple units to respond to respond to a simulated aircraft accident.
The fire department continues to respond to needle pickup calls, but this program has reduced the number of calls firefighters respond to.
If the candidate did not respond by the required deadline for publication, the words, “Did Not Respond In Time,” will appear next to their name.
And the stories are about how people respond or fail to respond to this.
Horses are animals of habit that respond well to regimentation, and respond best when the same routines and techniques are used consistently.
It permits the simultaneous measurement of heat effects that respond to a changing heating rate (reversing) and that don't respond to the changing heating rate (non-reversing).
Reeds fixed on the inner side of the reed plate (within the comb's air chamber) respond to blowing, while those fixed on the outer side respond to suction.
Some parts of the climate system, such as the oceans and ice caps, respond more slowly in reaction to climate forcings, while others respond more quickly.
The situation is the opposite with regard to repellents (fully methylated MCPs respond best to repellents, while least-methylated MCPs respond worst to repellents).
Those individuals who are highly motivated to respond, typically individuals who have strong opinions, are overrepresented, and individuals that are indifferent or apathetic are less likely to respond.
A Cameroonian health ministry spokesman didn’t respond to a call and message seeking comment.
Common combinations with respond
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- respond to 154×
- to respond 79×
- not respond 44×
- immediately respond 18×
- and respond 9×
- will respond 8×
- didn respond 5×
- respond with 5×
- would respond 4×
- respond in 4×