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.