Sample Sentences for
riposte
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riposte as in:  her witty riposte

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    I went out to get another bottle, but I was thwarted by the ATM, which gave me the much-anticipated riposte: There are insufficient funds in your account.  (source)
    riposte = quick reply
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    The Prefect's riposte to criticisms echoed by the press-Could not the regulations be modified and made less stringent?  (source)
    riposte = reply
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    "Pace gives life," was the riposte.  (source)
    riposte = quick reply
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    And with that elegant parting riposte, Root followed his squad into the night air.  (source)
    riposte = reply
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    "It's my belief you wouldn't know one if you were led right up to it by the hand," he riposted quickly;  (source)
    riposted = replied quickly
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    You're not my mother had become my most withering riposte.  (source)
    riposte = quick reply to a question or remark
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    He ducked and slashed, parried, riposted, jumped to the side, and stabbed in a whirl of activity.†  (source)
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    I tried a headcut, which he parried; and I parried his riposte to my heart and cut at his wrist.†  (source)
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    The little woman, attacked on a sudden, but never without arms, lighted up in an instant, parried and riposted with a home-thrust, which made Wagg's face tingle with shame; then she returned to her soup with the most perfect calm and a quiet smile on her face.†  (source)
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    "Riposte and remise if you must "In logic long known to be just.†  (source)
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    When he struck, I parried in quarte and riposted.†  (source)
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    "It was not an odd question," Paul said, and Jessica noted the brittle riposte quality of her training exposed in his voice.  (source)
    riposte = quick reply
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    He advanced so fast and smoothly that he seemed to apport and our blades rang as I parried his attack in sixte and riposted, was countered—remise, reprise, beat-and-attack—the phrase ran so smoothly, so long, and in such variation that a spectator might have thought that we were running through Grand Salute.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled.  (source)
    ripostes = counterattacks
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    Their blades bound and disengaged, feinted, thrust, parried, riposted.  (source)
    riposted = counterattacked
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    Eragon disengaged with a flourish, thrust, and then riposted as Murtagh parried, dancing away.  (source)
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His parries widened slightly, but his ripostes became more sudden now, and were interspersed with feints and unexpected attacks.  (source)
ripostes = counterattacks
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