How to Use riposte in a Sentence
riposte
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Her riposte is to question the morality of the law and the king who issued it.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
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In that sense, my book is a riposte to that kind of right-wing mythmaking.
—Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
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As important, the hearing was a visual riposte to the left’s wild claims.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
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Onstage at the Duke of York’s Theatre, no plummy riposte gets the better of her.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
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Rest assured Xavier should have a strong riposte for any offer Louisville makes.
—Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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Klobuchar said, in a riposte that lacked substance but made up for it in emotional IQ.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
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Adam Zamoyski’s book is a worthy riposte to that of Andrew Roberts.
—Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
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This broken rhythm was also a sort of riposte to the fashion system.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 July 2020
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Cher was 43 at the time, and flipped the yearning lyrics into a fierce riposte to aging, while straddling a cannon.
—CNN, 20 May 2021
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Here are some of the best ripostes, but honestly you can easily get lost in the replies section to any of his tweets.
—SI.com, 1 Sep. 2017
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That threat received a strong riposte the following day.
—Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
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His riposte on the stump that voters should just go about their lives and stop worrying is unlikely to sell.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
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That was more like a riposte to first lady tradition and a statement of intent: I will not be forced into the mold that was made for me.
—New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
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For those of us who’d rather stay home than wear a camel blazer, bright colors were a retina-searing riposte.
—Emily Farra, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2019
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The riposte came from Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister.
—Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 21 May 2017
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Increasingly, many will shift their approaches in the course of the game, responding to the lunges, the parries and the ripostes of their opponents.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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Yet Tillerson apparently doesn't see the need for a U.S. riposte.
—chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
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Three goals for England in the team’s opening match was their immediate riposte.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
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The riposte to cynicism starts with politicians who forsake outrage for hope.
—The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
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His lawyers have offered relatively little in the way of riposte—and have been pilloried for it.
—WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
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So Putin settled on a riposte that addressed the December diplomatic spat rather than the sanctions.
—Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2017
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And the words of an English prime minister of that epoch, Lord Palmerston, offer another riposte.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2021
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The sure-to-arrive riposte from the former president duly followed.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2022
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Investors and analysts following the to-and-fro on Capitec were left perplexed by the accusations, the bank’s riposte and the central bank’s statement.
—Franz Wild, Bloomberg.com, 30 Jan. 2018
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Though the bout is ostensibly just for fun, the resentment coursing between the men quickens each lunge, riposte and parry.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
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Since last summer, the Instagram account @violintorture has offered a riposte to the centuries-old craft of violin-making, or lutherie.
—Jennifer Gerste, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
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But there’s also another argument: for the nude as art, for the nude as autonomy, for the nude as a riposte to the stuffy traditions of art history.
—Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 May 2022
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The move set off a public riposte from the Sudanese military, which insisted the Egyptians were there on a training exercise.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
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Piquette is wine’s riposte to hard seltzer — a light, low-alcohol wine made by refermenting grape skins that would normally go to compost or be thrown away.
—Washington Post, 9 July 2021
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Hosting leaders of the world’s most powerful economies would provide Trump with a riposte to critics and a powerful platform in an election year.
—Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 20 May 2020
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