retaliate

How To Use retaliate In A Sentence

• PETA have retaliated by emailing the banned advert to hundreds of radio stations nationwide.
• A brief silence followed, in which she tried to retaliate with a clever comeback and he frowned angrily at the ground.
• They listened, with eager attention, to the complaints of their captive children, who had suffered the most cruel indignities from the lustful or angry passions of their masters, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were severely retaliated on the sons and daughters of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• He robustly retaliates with the view that nothing is off limits in the defeat of fascism.
• If we impose import duties, other countries may retaliate against us.
• If you are rude to me, I shall retaliate with equal rudeness.
• Rather than rewarding whistleblowers who had been punished for their good deeds, Obama has signing statemented away constraints on his power to retaliate against whistleblowers by firing them. Six Months of Immunity
• I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT
• In a speech introducing his formal trade strategy Tuesday, Mr. De Gucht said the EU would use its leverage as the world ' s largest economic bloc to " retaliate " against countries with closed public-contracts markets. EU Seeks to Crack Bidding In Beijing
• I paused to give him a chance to retaliate with something equally sarcastic, but nothing was forthcoming. LOSING IT