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a retaliatory action — typically against an individual or group(A retaliatory action is one taken to harm someone who previously harmed you.)
- The citizens are afraid to report crime because of fear of reprisal.
- The rebels said they executed the prisoners in reprisal for the assassination of the rebel leader.
- In 2001, the widely scattered threats and acts of reprisal against Muslim and Arab Americans had no encouragement from national or local media.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- As if by way of reprisal five or six shots from the opposite house knocked more splinters off the shutter.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- They resulted in reprisals.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- The threats, spoken and unspoken, about reprisals against those who supported me increased each day.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- An idea, when violated, cannot make reprisals.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- He killed him as a reprisal, out of revenge because it was our family that had caught him with the Queen.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- You decide whether it would be wise to adopt a strategy that would invite reprisals.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- His fear of reprisal against his only remaining family crippled him.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Long-lost cousin, ain't you!" she cried at me, and gave me the same kiss she had given Kate-a sort of reprisal-kiss.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- They begged us not to take vengeance against the children, to put aside reprisals.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- Some believed it, but kept silent for fear of reprisal.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- I am on fire To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, And yet not ours.William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
- Small attacks by Tutsis in exile led to larger and larger reprisals by the new Hutu authorities.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Epernon reeks of a Jackal reprisal.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- After my parents' visit to America I could telephone them in China and write to them, freely, without fear of reprisal, and I could send them money too.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- I will not, by giving it up, lose my right of some time or other making reprisals on my adversaries.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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