response

[rɪˈspɑːns]

Definition:
1. A spoken or written answer.
2. A reaction to something that has happened or been said.
3. The manner in which something is greeted.

Use 'response' in a sentence:

• 1. His calm response dissolved her anger.
• 2. The government's response to the report has been a deafening silence.
• 3. Bernard made no response to Tom's conversational gambits.
• 4. Kyle says the average 911 response time is about 9.2 minutes.
• 5. His response was immediate and emphatic.
• 6. I knocked on the door but there was no response.
• 7. We carefully plotted each patient's response to the drug on a chart.
• 8. The news provoked an angry response.
• 9. This was a typically ungenerous response.
• 10. His response was icy.
• 11. His response was full of pretentious nonsense.
• 12. The proposals received only a muted response.
• 13. The government has been cautious in its response to the report.
• 14. He said that he was delighted with the public response.
• 15. We have not as yet received a response.
• 16. They were perplexed by her response.
• 17. The stress response is controlled by the hypothalamus.
• 18. My letters to her have elicited no response.
• 19. The form the human family takes is a response to environmental pressures.
• 20. They waited for his habitual response.
• 21. Her yawn was a Pavlovian response to my yawn.
• 22. I could elicit no response from him.
• 23. There has been no response to his remarks from the government.
• 24. I'm depressed by the bovine enthusiasm of the crowd's response.
• 25. She was totally unprepared for his response.
• 26. She made no response.
• 27. The police say the response has been far better than expected.
• 28. His response was negative.
• 29. The study received a lukewarm response from the Home Secretary.
• 30. The general response was one of understandable bafflement.
• 31. Responses were graded from 1 to 5.
• 32. Our aim is immediacy of response to emergency calls.
• 33. 'No comment,' was the actor's stock response.
• 34. We sent out over 1 000 letters but the response rate has been low.
• 35. Their response to the proposal was, at best, cool.
• 36. I think the response was good.
• 37. I received an encouraging response to my advertisement.
• 38. The comments provoked an angry response from union leaders.
• 39. Millions of people gave freely in response to the appeal for the victims of the earthquake.
• 40. We've had a very positive response to the idea.
• 41. We were greatly encouraged by the positive response of the public.
• 42. The product was developed in response to customer demand.
• 43. The average response time to emergency calls was 9 minutes.
• 44. His response was well balanced.
• 45. The response to our appeal was fantastic.