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How to use respond in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Respond means to say something in return; to answer; to reply. Example: “The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.”

Examples of respond by meaning

verbTo say something in return; to answer; to reply.

  • to respond to a question or an argument

verbTo act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.

  • Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03...

verbTo satisfy; to answer.

  • The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.

More sentences with respond

  • My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.From the entry kill
  • The audience loudly clapped the actress, who responded with a deep curtsey.From the entry clap
  • The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond.From the entry poll
  • I was eldered for directly responding to someone else's message in meeting for worship.From the entry elder
  • The infant responded vocally to the first stimulus in the study.From the entry vocally
  • The server seems to be wedged: it's not even responding to pings.From the entry wedged
  • He responded to the insult a Roland for an Oliver, striking back just as hard.From the entry a Roland for an Oliver
  • He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.From the entry make a pass
  • Botsitting rarely resembles the popular image of someone watching a chatbot respond"From the entry botsitting
  • Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.From the entry demand
  • I have just responded outright to that question.From the entry outright
  • How should the international community respond to Somali piracy?From the entry piracy
  • He got the drop on them and proceeded to shoot and kill them before they could fire a shot or respond.From the entry get the drop on
  • Most people responding to the radio station's survey were nonlisteners.From the entry nonlistener
  • You responded to the problem praisably fast!From the entry praisably
  • His failure to respond meant he was sentenced pro confesso.From the entry pro confesso
  • The game will not respond to small movements of the joystick, until the stick is pushed out of its dead zone.From the entry deadband
  • She responded with an indifferent shrug.From the entry indifferent
  • There were so many incoming enemy planes that our monitoring and notification system blew up before the base was even able to respond.From the entry blow up
  • English's use of the French loanword "RSVP" often leaves it grammatically unanalyzed, yielding "please RSVP", which is venially redundant (lit. "please please respond").From the entry unanalyzed
  • The infant responds reactively to stimuli.From the entry reactively
  • Poor children are often accused of having deplorable manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.From the entry deplorable
  • Surprised by the question, the older man responded, “I don’t give patsh.”2026 March 12, Rabbi Akiva Males, “Were the Ba’alei Tosafos Familiar with Aesop or Buddhism?”, in The Seforim Blog, archived from the…. From the entry potch
  • The White House usually responds to criticism about such things by laughing it off.2026 February 6, Erica L. Green, Isabella Kwai, “Trump Deletes Racist Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry laugh off
  • The “South Park” social media account responded, “Wait, so we ARE relevant?” and added a ribald hashtag.2025 August 7, Derrick Bryson Taylor, “‘South Park’ Finds New Relevance Skewering the Trump Era”, in The New York Times. From the entry ribald
  • Back in Rome, Francis responded by dispatching an envoy to look into the case.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry about-turn
  • When contacted by phone, Spirin hung up without responding to questions.2025 December 11, Juliette Garside, Stas Kozliuk, Poline Tchoubar, Guillaume Vénétitay, “‘She was very, very thin’: eyewitness sheds new…. From the entry FSIN
  • Following this retweet, several internet commentators responded to the title of the conference paper.2025 September, Casey Burkholder, Pam Whitty, Pam Malins, Melissa Keehn, “On summoning queer joy in early childhood education: Some…. From the entry queerphobe
  • He responded domestically and internationally to several notable missions to include: Oklahoma City Bombing, U.S.2022 March 22, “Garrett Dyer Appointed Executive Director of the Virginia Department of Fire Programs”, in Homeland Security Today…. From the entry Touliu
  • “Milkglass goes with anything,” Ann responded, wrapping her arms around the full brown paper bag.2022, Marilyn Shapiro Leys, Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry milkglass
  • She was thoughtful, patient, and would take her cues from how I responded.2021 November 8, Addie Tsai, AKALAC, “To Strap Or Not To Strap — That Is The Question”, in Autostraddle, archived from the original on 08…. From the entry strap
  • And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly.2021, Charles P. Pierce, “Vladimir Putin Is a King Bullshit Artist,” Esquire, June 17 [quoting Joe Biden]. From the entry cyber
  • The other priority is getting people to respond well to interventions, especially changes to routine.2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9. From the entry unknown
  • Kona responded as air hurricaned out of the bay and water rushed in.2020, Erik Seedhouse, Terminal Reality. From the entry hurricane
  • Often, BJs will respond to star balloons with a sign of thanks.2020, Eve Turow-Paul, Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning. From the entry bj
  • No UK company responded, believing that the availability requirement could not be reached in British operating conditions.2020 August 12, John Crosse, “Mendip Heavy Haulage workhorses”, in Rail, page 63. From the entry redesign
  • They don’t respond well to Trumptastic bombast, something Trump can’t grasp.2020 August 18, John Kass, “Column: Democratic National Convention ignores the elephant in the virtual room: Big-city violence”, in…. From the entry Trumptastic

Meaning of respond

  1. verb To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
  2. verb To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
  3. verb To correspond with; to suit.

Full definition of respond

Questions about respond in a sentence

How do you use respond in a sentence?
Respond is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.”
What is a short sentence with respond?
“She responded with an indifferent shrug.”
What does respond mean?
Respond means to say something in return; to answer; to reply.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respond (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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