REPLY in a Sentence

Learn REPLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
256 example sentences for REPLY, such as:
1. To this Selifan returned no reply.
2. I'm looking forward to a prompt reply.
3. Chichikov made no reply save a gesture.
4. Derek's terse reply ended the conversation.
5. He did not reply to her question right away.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of REPLY
reply
 v.  react verbally
 n.  a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To this Selifan returned no reply.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  At this point Chichikov, without waiting for Nozdrev's reply, seized his cap, slipped behind the Superintendent's back, rushed out on to the verandah, sprang into his britchka, and ordered Selifan to drive like the wind.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  With toothless gums Plushkin murmured something in reply, but nothing is known as to its precise terms beyond that it included a statement that the devil was at liberty to fly away with Chichikov's sentiments.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  'To such and such a landowner,' stoutly you reply.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  To this the tchinovniks made no reply beyond pointing towards a corner of the room where an elderly man appeared to be engaged in sorting some papers.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
6  It appeared as though Ivan Antonovitch had not heard, so completely did he bury himself in his papers and return no reply.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
7  But both his Excellency, the Public Prosecutor, and Chichikov were too taken aback to reply.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
8  "Well, there can be no harm in that," he would reply.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
9  As before, Tientietnikov did not reply, and the renewed mention of the subject seemed to have annoyed him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
10  Chichikov made no reply save a gesture.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
11  Poor Khlobuev could not utter a word in reply, and Murazov began to feel sorry for him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  Yet almost as he spoke the gendarmes seized him again, and hurried him away so swiftly that Murazov's reply escaped his ears.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  Bazarov's thin lips moved just perceptibly, though he made no reply, but merely took off his cap.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Arkady made no reply to Bazarov, and each of them got into bed with rather singular thoughts in his head.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Katya made no reply, but she ceased looking at Arkady.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  The author whom you criticized in your review has written a reply.
2  He did not reply to her question right away.
3  In reply to his question, most of them answered yes.
4  Derek's terse reply ended the conversation.
5  After the defense finishes its closing argument, the prosecution will have the opportunity to reply.
6  She did not reply directly to the allegations.
7  There was an element of ambiguity in the president's reply.
8  I'm looking forward to a prompt reply.
9  I should scope out his real goal before I give him a definite reply.
10  Their failure to reply to our letter seems to imply a lack of interest.
11  In the normal course of events, you should get a reply by Monday.
12  We can't promise to publish a reply as space is limited.
13  His reply to my question was somewhat ambiguous.
14  I try to reply to letters the day I receive them.
15  You should receive a reply within seven days.