Get to know Retorts better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Retorts meaning
plural of retort
Using Retorts
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of retort
- In the example corpus, retorts often appears in combinations such as: retorts that, retorts to, retorts and.
Context around Retorts
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Retorts
- In this selection, "retorts" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, childish, actor, eddie, handcuffs and blaming stand out and add context to how "retorts" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and eddie retorts with more and and the retorts. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "retorts" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with retorts
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The admiral retorts, blaming the mechas for attacking first. (9 words)
This, Ørbeck-Nilssen retorts, is where DNVs ‘pathways’ come in. (10 words)
Brazil retorts that any criticism of its self-sufficiency policy is colonially inspired. (13 words)
Ana Solano Mejias, playing Little Red Riding Hood, convincingly performed the part of a sassy young girl: she would always snap back at the others with quick retorts, and going at the other characters with her knife, trying to scare them into compliance. (43 words)
In a 2015 documentary film on 50 years of the Hungryalist movement, the director, Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, begins by asking Malay Raychoudhury why the Hungry generation’s poetry “failed”, to which the movement’s “creator” retorts, “Who says it has failed? (40 words)
I’m not interested in my posts being hacked up so others can then make childish retorts to pieces of my post, instead of acting like an adult and engaging in appropriate discourse. (33 words)
In a 2015 documentary film on 50 years of the Hungryalist movement, the director, Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, begins by asking Malay Raychoudhury why the Hungry generation’s poetry “failed”, to which the movement’s “creator” retorts, “Who says it has failed? (40 words)
Example sentences (16)
Despite Barbie (Margot Robbie) trying to reassure him by affirming “You are Ken”, he retorts, “But it’s ‘Barbie and Ken’.
I’m not interested in my posts being hacked up so others can then make childish retorts to pieces of my post, instead of acting like an adult and engaging in appropriate discourse.
Karan Johar further asks Arjun Kapoor about whether he has done any off screen role play, to this the Ishaqzaade actor retorts, "Handcuffs".
Moxley flips off Eddie, and Eddie retorts with more huge chops and a middle finger of his own.
The admiral retorts, blaming the mechas for attacking first.
They ganged up on him but he dodged the barbs and came back with witty retorts and snappy comebacks.
This, Ørbeck-Nilssen retorts, is where DNVs ‘pathways’ come in.
She found Don Kanonji hilarious and imitated his ridiculous laugh, and she often has snappy retorts to make whenever anyone annoys her, often with a funny face.
Your mind spins, processing and reprocessing questions you might be asked, retorts you might deliver.
Brazil retorts that any criticism of its self-sufficiency policy is colonially inspired.
Farage retorts that a wealthy businessman has now paid for the flight, which is what happens to ordinary people all the time.
In a 2015 documentary film on 50 years of the Hungryalist movement, the director, Tanmoy Bhattacharjee, begins by asking Malay Raychoudhury why the Hungry generation’s poetry “failed”, to which the movement’s “creator” retorts, “Who says it has failed?
Ana Solano Mejias, playing Little Red Riding Hood, convincingly performed the part of a sassy young girl: she would always snap back at the others with quick retorts, and going at the other characters with her knife, trying to scare them into compliance.
Chaucer retorts that "My frend maystow nat reven, blind goddesse" (50) and orders her to take away those who merely pretend to be his friends.
He certainly was clever enough to have created the situations and the retorts.
Kikuchiyo retorts that samurai are responsible for battles, raids, taxation and forced labor that devastate the villagers' lives.
Common combinations with retorts
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- retorts that 4×
- retorts to 2×
- retorts and 2×