Sample sentences for REJOINDER

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Definition

a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)

Law: a rejoinder is a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication (reply)

I couldn't keep from laughing at his sarcastic rejoinder.

Churchill's famous rejoinder to Chamberlain's claim that he had obtained peace with honor at the Munich pact: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war."
I couldn't think of a quick rejoinder; though I thought of the perfect one later that night.
it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher
"I neither want any thanks, nor merit any," was the careless rejoinder.
Dickens, Charles -- A Tale Of Two Cities
Her eyes darkened, and he expected an indignant rejoinder.
Wharton, Edith -- The Age of Innocence
On looking back, I realize that the remark was too obvious to make rejoinder necessary.
London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
"If he had been, you would not have loved him, my dear lady," was the rejoinder.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
There was the smallest vein of scorn in her words of rejoinder: "Have you saved yourself?
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"You've forfeited your rights to own that dog," was the rejoinder.
Jack London -- White Fang
Leper didn't bother to make a rejoinder.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
Mr Pancks's short and sharp rejoinder, confirmed by the sudden outstretching of his coaly hand, was most expressive and convincing.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Nelthilta's rejoinder to Chervil in the run had been full of hatred, but this doe's gaze spoke of wrongs beyond her power to express.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
Her eyes darkened, and he expected an indignant rejoinder.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
"Oh, DINNER——" he mocked her; but she left him with the smiling rejoinder: "Dinner on board, remember; we'll put it off till nine if you like."
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
And on Isabel's making no rejoinder he went on to enquire whether it took his lordship five days to indite a letter.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
His listeners, who had held their breath during Herr Settembrini's grand rejoinder, breathed out again now.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
The two girls looked at Heinrich, anticipating a surgically deft rejoinder.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Bazarov at first stirred a little in his bed, then he uttered the following rejoinder: 'You're still a fool, my boy, I see.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons

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