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Sentence Examples Evelyn glared daggers at me, causing whatever sharp retort to vanish on the tip of my tongue. The furnace which was used to retort the ore was previously taken off location so little or no above ground structures were left. Jade opened her mouth to retort, but the sound of a bell interrupted her, sending panic rippling through her. She expected a retort, another blow to her already battered body, but neither came. Morgan opened her mouth for a cutting retort, then abruptly closed it again. The response he received was an angry retort from a man in the crowd holding a longbow, with an arrow strung and ready to fire. A predictable response, retort media analysts, who believe that the loss-making business can no longer be sustained. I was going to retort with some scathing sarcasm, but I bit it back for one reason. The retort was in the nature of the tac-au-tac riposte beloved of the skilled swordsman. When he reiterated it at a City Council meeting some months ago, I offered a tart retort. Always ready with a sharp retort, he savagely compared Manet to their slick, fashionable contemporary Carolus-Duran. Sydney's eyes narrowed in response and she willed her sharp tongue to spit back a scathing retort. The look he gave Dancer was slightly less tolerant, but he swallowed any retort he might have made. He gave me an once-over, slowly letting his gaze survey me up and down, and I felt my cheeks heat up, regretting my stupid retort. Michael gritted his teeth, stilling his retort as he watched them walked away. A colleague who once said that chess was only a board game earned the brisk retort that, no, chess was an art form. He blurts some knee-jerk retort about his music always being authentic and soulful then pauses and thinks about it a bit. While JB's letter was heated and bare-knuckled, it landed many accurate punches, while your prolix retort was sadly disappointing. The crude fusel oil must be submitted to a careful distillation with a thermometer in the retort. She is dressed in a body-hugging, full-length stripper gown and armed with an acid retort for every smart-aleck remark. Show More Sentences He leapt away before I could retort, blew me a kiss, and with a rakish smile, ran into his house. I retort, setting the brush down on the counter and yanking my hair into a ponytail. Quin looked as though he might retort with some snide remark he was sure to regret, so Drake interrupted. It takes every ounce of self-control that I have to not retort back with a scathing remark about what a fool she is. Jake was about to retort with a very rude comment when pain flared up through his body, causing him to cry out. Jamie was about to retort the remark made by someone behind Maddie but found her words stuck in her throat as that person slowly came into view. Tairo fought back the need to retort, feeling helpless and angry at the same time. I opened my mouth to retort but couldn't quite come up with anything witty or smart or right. I debated whether to retort with a witty comeback or to not pay attention to him. Trent breathed in deeply, fighting the urge to retort something regrettable. Each time these arguments against have been countered with rational retort only for the excuse to be replaced by an incredulous one. It is human nature that if you are insulted by someone, you will retort the insult. The art of the quick retort, the clever reply, the sharp tongue are things many of us wish we had more of. Rolandon prepared to retort, but his muscles and arms were aching madly and he was exhausted, physically and mentally. Everyone discreetly turned his or her head towards Jordan, ready for the retort, and the angry outburst, but he merely shrugged. When he teased me, but in a way that didn't deserve a truly biting retort, I pushed his chest lightly, or dug a finger into his waist. Keziah tried to think up a suitably sarcastic retort quickly, but her mind was blank. With that retort, Will shoved Mark into a table, but Mark countered, ducking from a roundhouse swing and taking Will's legs out from underneath him. Cora bit her lip as she forced herself to not retort to his last remark. I bit my tongue to stop the sarcastic retort from leaving my mouth. Show More Sentences Without letting him answer or retort she rode back towards the lake. Water gas had a lower calorific value than coal gas so the calorific value was often boosted by passing the gas through a heated retort into which oil was sprayed. Whether a suitable retort from a Scottish nationalist would be the nodding of his head, or whether he would be quicker on the draw with two fingers might be a moot point. Before Roman could open his mouth to retort, Lenore answered. Christopher clenched his jaw, fighting back the sharp retort and the wave of agony-driven rage as the carriage lurched to a stop outside the Donovan home. He drew away slowly, with no angry retort to throw back at her. It was an angry retort, and I tried to control the edge in my voice. Cordelia rolled her eyes, but was too tired to give a scathing retort. We cannot repudiate unchangeable truths, their opponents retort. The retort will come from our comrades on the right that his business experience matters more than governmental experience. He swallows as if choking back some kind of retort, then forces a laugh. More often than not, the retort to this rhetorical question involves obscene invective, drawn from the vulgar nomenclature regarding genitalia and the act of coition. His efforts in producing the polished phrase, the pithy retort are far greater than his efforts to tell a fascinating story clearly and concisely. And without so much as a departing retort, some face-saving insult, the duffel-coated rickle of banes slunk off. William Champion's brother, John, patented a process in 1758 for calcining zinc sulfide into an oxide usable in the retort process. The freebase is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the freebase vaporizes. In 1738 in Great Britain, William Champion patented a process to extract zinc from calamine in a vertical retort style smelter. This brought a smile to Robbins' face, and her good-natured retort indicated a brushback pitch would be a more likely scenario. Traditionally, oil shale energy content, calorific value, is measured by so-called bomb calorimeter and oil yield in so-called Fischer retort. Before she had time to think of a retort, Linda saw Tania beckoning her. Show More Sentences At the opposite extreme from methane lie the heavy tars that remain as the lowest fraction in a crude oil refining retort. There are sophists who retort that Mr. Duranty was recognized for what he wrote before he bore false witness about the Holodomor, as Ukrainians refer to this genocide. She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue. They feel his apology stopped shy to prevent any legal retort. In this study we laid out the combustor-retort combined system so that spent shale circulates between retort unit and combustor unit playing a role of a heat carrier. But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride. But far from being the cynical remark it is often taken for, it was meant as a retort to atheistic opponents such as d'Holbach, Grimm, and others. Examples from Classical Literature As a retort the Ameer sought to call the border tribes to a jehad, or holy war, against the British, but with little success. It is tempting to set this down as a Johnsonian prejudice, and to deny or retort the comparison. From anthranilic acid mixed with powdered glass or sand, and rapidly heated in a retort. She is more than welcome to retort upon him with her supposititious husband. To be sure, the toucan might retort, To what purpose were gentlemen in Bond Street created? Mr Pecksniff was, as a matter of course, greatly entertained by this retort. But he had carried his curtness too far, and was not prepared for the quick retort. The retort, however happy, is no more conclusive than other cases of the tu quoque. When all was cool, I found in the retort a saline liquor, some undissolved magnesia, and some salt ammoniac crystallized. An unreproducible sniff, half contempt, half reminiscence, rounded the retort. This mixture he puts into a glass retort, and with a graduated fire draws off a very sharp, volatile, urinous spirit. He seemed to deprecate the vigor of my retort and lifted a cautioning hand. These disappointments of her patronage were a sharp retort, and made me feel independent. Again, it was Sadie who was first to retort, which she did with a manner that aped his own insolence. Two piles of books supported the tongs, and these upheld a small glass retort above an Argand lamp. It was this play that drew forth from a woman, an American playwright, the retort stinging. Cyanide of potassium and sulphovinate of baryta, equal parts, are mixed and distilled in a glass retort by a moderate heat. Drawing the toxicologist Dr. Ginsberg with his smooth face modified into a chemical retort had not turned out well. I dared not retort, but I looked so hard at his paunch that the General smiled. Charcoal or even oil may be substituted for black flux, and a retort of hard glass may be used, with the same result. Show More Sentences The residue left in the retort is a mixture of caffeine and a resinous substance containing chlorophyll. There is no retort to such a proposition as this so proper as the argument not ad hominem, but ab or ex homine. After continuing the process for some time, no succinic acid is found in the receiver, but the copal blackens in the retort. On which the Billickin would retort, 'If you was better accustomed to butcher's meat, Miss, you would not entertain the idea of a lamb's fry. The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap. The hot retort from Barrett ended in his throat with a cluck. The richer humor of Jessie's retort had thrown him into convulsions of laughter. Woodhouse's peculiarities and fidgetiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally illbestowed. Kirkwood's smile robbed the retort of any flavor of incivility. Smuts not only has a keen sense of humor but is swift on the retort. The mixture in the retort should not be allowed to spirt over. The liquid in the retort should be kept in a steady state of bullition. The retort of the khalif must have given them the surprise of their lives. You might retort with a tu quoque, but it would not be true. To this she made no retort, though a tu quoque would have been most just. In some forms the water gas is passed with the oil through the retort. When bones are used, the residuum in the retort is bone black. Marianne was going to retort, but she remembered her promises, and forbore. Poor Jed, the long-suffering, was goaded into a mild retort. And we have to retort that it is out of print, not procurable. Show More Sentences Her raillery, like the raillery of princes, was without fear of retort. A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Peggotty made no such retort, only answering with another entreaty to Mrs. In fact, some properties of PP homopolymers can be increased by blending with recycled materials from ketchup bottles, retort containers and juice bottles. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of retort? Words that rhyme with retort What is the past tense of retort? What is the plural of retort? What is the adjective for retort? What is the noun for retort? Translations for retort Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words retorsion retooling retooled retool retook retold retorted retorting retorts retouch retouched retoucher 6-letter Words Starting With r re ret reto retor