"reply" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Ho, ho," Martie said, because she was too rattled to think of a witty reply.
- "Happy birthday" is one of those conversation killers, which leave the person on its receiving end no opportunity for a witty reply.
- His witty but heartless reply that he, "was no coroner", was received among British officers with great amusement and even made the rounds in London.
- I held back the witty reply designed to demolish him, for I knew that was exactly what he wanted.
- Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to John Saltmarsh, who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform.
- If Gervasa had a witty reply to that, she kept it to herself.
- He was not quick or clever enough to make the witty reply.
- The church would put up one sign and the hotel would have another with a witty reply to the church's sign.
- 38 Phyllis Schlafly never comes up with a witty or tart reply.
- In everyday language, a riposte is synonymous with a retort and describes a quick and witty reply to an argument or an insult.
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