REJOINDER in a Sentence

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Bazarov at first stirred a little in his bed, then he uttered the following rejoinder: 'You're still a fool, my boy, I see.'

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 Meanings and Examples of REJOINDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rejoinder
 n.  retort; comeback; answer to a reply
Classic Sentence:
1  Tientietnikov made no rejoinder, and the conversation came temporarily to an end.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  Bazarov at first stirred a little in his bed, then he uttered the following rejoinder: 'You're still a fool, my boy, I see.'
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  I don't like him, she added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
4  His son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
5  Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III
6  He looked compassionately at Balashev, and as soon as the latter tried to make some rejoinder hastily interrupted him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
7  So little was his rejoinder appreciated that Napoleon did not notice it at all and naively asked Balashev through what towns the direct road from there to Moscow passed.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VII
8  Wolzogen was about to make a rejoinder, but Kutuzov interrupted him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXV
9  Kutuzov made no rejoinder or remark.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
10  "He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  And all the infant paupers might have chorussed the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  "If he had been, you would not have loved him, my dear lady," was the rejoinder.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
13  She realized now that though he had infuriated her with his malicious comments and roused her to heated rejoinders, he had done it because he cared what she did and said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
14  He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  When someone has been rude to me, I find it particularly satisfying to come up with a quick rejoinder.