It wasn't the boy who replied but the woman with him.

The god replied with a thought that might have been a number between two and four billion years.

I replied to that question with one of my own.

I wasn't going to call out, in case someone decided to reply with something other than a voice.

Several weeks later they replied with their agreement to the project.

She replied to his smile with one of her own.

"She wants to have my children," I replied with a serious look.

How else is a woman to reply if not with her inner being?

The Players replied with 122 to take a first innings lead of 46.

The man replied with a question of his own: "Do you have an apartment for me?"