Retaliated is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Retaliated meaning
simple past and past participle of retaliate
Using Retaliated
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of retaliate
- In the example corpus, retaliated often appears in combinations such as: retaliated by, retaliated against, retaliated with.
Context around Retaliated
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Retaliated
- In this selection, "retaliated" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, forces, amazon, rapper and following stand out and add context to how "retaliated" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after hamas retaliated against the and amazon retaliated with spurious. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "retaliated" sits close to words such as addict, behavioural and bengali, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with retaliated
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Israeli military said it retaliated with warplanes and helicopter gunships. (11 words)
In response, the rapper retaliated by throwing her microphone into the audience. (12 words)
The island nation retaliated with an equally dangerous attacking move in the 16th minute. (14 words)
In late March, US forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following a suspected Iran-linked drone attack that killed a US contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria. (41 words)
The father withdrew his children from the school in fury, writing in his own letter to the board how the school had retaliated against him by punishing his kids when he questioned the poor book keeping. (36 words)
Brown responded with a lawsuit alleging, among other things, that police used excessive force, lacked probable cause to arrest him, retaliated against him in violation of his First Amendment rights, and violated his civil rights. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Amazon retaliated with spurious appeals to the National Labor Review Board to nullify the election.
Brown responded with a lawsuit alleging, among other things, that police used excessive force, lacked probable cause to arrest him, retaliated against him in violation of his First Amendment rights, and violated his civil rights.
He alleged that the town then retaliated by firing him when he reported that harassment — not for his misconduct.
In addition, Israeli forces retaliated following two separate rocket attacks from Syria, one earlier and one later in the day.
In late March, US forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following a suspected Iran-linked drone attack that killed a US contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria.
In response, the rapper retaliated by throwing her microphone into the audience.
Israel has retaliated with heavy bombing that Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said has killed more than 6,500 people.
Israel reported the incoming fire and said the IDF had retaliated with airstrikes on Gaza, targeting two alleged rocket launchers belonging to PIJ.
Junta forces retaliated by launching a 30-minute airstrike on the village and resistance groups, using MI 35 helicopter gunships.
Last month, China retaliated against Western export controls with its own sweeping restrictions on gallium and germanium, two crucial chipmaking inputs.
Likewise, StandWithUs builds a false allegation that I “retaliated” against Jewish students, a claim that GW, the Dean’s office, and my program knows to be categorically false.
On Oct. 7, Hamas militants attacked Israeli settlements near the border of the Gaza Strip — and in the weeks following, Israel has retaliated with airstrikes.
So they retaliated by reminding him that the same contract he referenced does not provide for Lauren’s presence in the team.
Steven Cheung, the head of communications for the Trump campaign, retaliated in a statement to Axios, stating, "Miles Taylor is a loser and a lying sack of s---.
The Biden administration has been presented with an opportunity to sound its rocket rhetoric after Hamas retaliated against the Israeli colonial violence unleashed upon Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The father withdrew his children from the school in fury, writing in his own letter to the board how the school had retaliated against him by punishing his kids when he questioned the poor book keeping.
The government (a) implemented a “Russification” policy to protect potential sanctions targets, (b) sought new economic and political partnerships, (c) retaliated against the countries imposing sanctions, and (d) attempted de-dollarization.
The island nation retaliated with an equally dangerous attacking move in the 16th minute.
The Israeli military said it retaliated with warplanes and helicopter gunships.
The suspects allegedly started firing shots at the police who retaliated and the motor vehicle subsequently stopped,” said police spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba.
Common combinations with retaliated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- retaliated by 50×
- retaliated against 45×
- retaliated with 28×
- has retaliated 9×
- retaliated to 9×
- china retaliated 8×
- retaliated in 8×
- and retaliated 8×
- retaliated and 7×
- was retaliated 6×