How to Use rejoinder in a Sentence

rejoinder

noun
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  • The article was a stinging rejoinder to her critics.
  • His team had prepared him for it and had rejoinders at the ready.
    — Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2019
  • The Whittle School is his rejoinder to the many skeptics and doubters.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
  • For one night at least, there would be no open rejoinder.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 13 Dec. 2017
  • And yes, the obvious rejoinder to that the White House sometimes struggles with the truth.
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The focus on rap feels like a rejoinder to the melody-forward Igor.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • In its own small way, the new Rolling Stone list feels like just the rejoinder to Hill's comments that fans have been waiting for.
    — Brandon Tensley and Leah Asmelash, CNN, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The next day, Jeff Henry shot back with a fiery rejoinder to his brother and Schexnailder.
    — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 10 Apr. 2018
  • On July 1, Warholm brought it down to 46.7, which felt like either a brazen rejoinder to Benjamin, or a sign of things to come.
    — Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2021
  • And on top of that, the movie felt like a cruel rejoinder to anyone who’d ever believed that the once-red-hot Shyamalan could right the ship.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 July 2021
  • That was when Robert offered a rejoinder to his brother.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Mrs. Clinton, in a measured tone and with a tight smile, responded with a harsh rejoinder of her own.
    — Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2016
  • The movie pumps a lot of blood and viscera with the occasional witty rejoinder.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • That song is a rejoinder to hip-hop boasting in line with the hit satires made by Macklemore, an artist he’ll inevitably be compared to.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Yet the ultimate rejoinder to the father of the joke may be Ma’s own attitude today.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Belle's rejoinder was a middle finger salute from the outfield with his right hand held behind his back.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The rejoinder was spoken to Fisher but plainly addressed to Kagan, sitting just to his right on the bench.
    — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The flags represent a steadfast rejoinder to those who believe such symbols have no place at a Catholic school.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
  • She's been tough in debates and unafraid to deliver a sharp rejoinder to a rival.
    — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In an early, much longer version of this story, the rich jerk was a young woman, and Frank had an exquisite rejoinder to Have a nice day.
    — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • My rejoinder to that would be that the idea that Joe Biden could return a lot of those white working-class voters to the Democratic fold could turn out to be a mirage.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
  • Cheney’s rejoinder is that hers was a vote of conscience, a word and concept that some of her critics need to reacquaint themselves with.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The game serves as a warning and a rejoinder: the future is coming, but it is built not by servos and fiber optics, but by the decisions of people.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
  • But, in recent years, Fukuyama has been troubled by the rise of populism and has offered a weak rejoinder to it in his book Identity.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Souza often offered a trolly rejoinder and laid bare just how many norms Trump was breaking.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The effects of the coronavirus pandemic are a sobering rejoinder to such hopes.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • For many of the women here, the conference was a rejoinder of sorts to the many female Democrats running for office and organizing in the midterm elections.
    — Author: Astead W. Herndon, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2018
  • But Democrats have a rejoinder: Walters has already raised your taxes.
    — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • And at the time, with the economy still struggling to come out from under the stifling blanket of the pandemic the Democratic rejoinder made some sense.
    — Noah Millman, The Week, 20 Oct. 2021
  • To such qualms, the government offers three rejoinders.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018

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