How to Use riposte in a Sentence

riposte

noun
  • Larkin tried to come up with a witty riposte but came up empty.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • In that sense, my book is a riposte to that kind of right-wing mythmaking.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Her riposte is to question the morality of the law and the king who issued it.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • This broken rhythm was also a sort of riposte to the fashion system.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 July 2020
  • Losing in three sets was a riposte to those who feared the match wouldn’t be competitive.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • As important, the hearing was a visual riposte to the left’s wild claims.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Rest assured Xavier should have a strong riposte for any offer Louisville makes.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Klobuchar said, in a riposte that lacked substance but made up for it in emotional IQ.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The riposte to cynicism starts with politicians who forsake outrage for hope.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The obvious riposte at this point is that the NFL has been doing it for years.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Night Temple is one small riposte to all that, from local artists no longer miserably waiting for the tides to turn.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Adam Zamoyski’s book is a worthy riposte to that of Andrew Roberts.
    — Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Inside, the house reads less as a monument to excess than a deft riposte to the cold minimalism of decades past.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Three goals for England in the team’s opening match was their immediate riposte.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • His lawyers have offered relatively little in the way of riposte—and have been pilloried for it.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The sure-to-arrive riposte from the former president duly followed.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Onstage at the Duke of York’s Theatre, no plummy riposte gets the better of her.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Pornographer is a riposte to the banning of The Dark, a very mordant kind of revenge.
    — Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • So Putin settled on a riposte that addressed the December diplomatic spat rather than the sanctions.
    — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • The exchanges have included headline-making ripostes from Christian Pulisic and his entourage.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eventually, Letterman acknowledged the riposte was not his best work.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025

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