"reply" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Lost in concentration, he gave only perfunctory replies.
- "Well, I'm glad of that," was his perfunctory reply.
- But after a perfunctory reply, she drifted away.
- He got a perfunctory but cordial reply.
- Toh-Shiba made a perfunctory reply via the same circuitous route and accepted the offer of refreshments.
- Bond made a perfunctory reply and rose, pushing back the table.
- I spent a moment doing the senior officer thing, asking Smith a few shallow, innocuous questions, as he did his respectful subordinate thing, offering brief, perfunctory replies.
- The Mayor, believing the letter to be politically motivated, gave a perfunctory reply.
- Luis listened to perfunctory replies, marking each man in his head by role and not by name or rank.
- Sonny made no perfunctory reply.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.