Example Sentences

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The audiences have reciprocated the gesture by filling the theaters more than they usually do.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025

The two countries have reciprocated with measures of their own.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2022

Belaying is a core climbing skill and one most climbers will expect to have reciprocated.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2021

There was a pause during which he should have reciprocated but didn’t.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

Had we approached Napoleon in a friendly spirit and on equal terms, without haughty condescension, he would have reciprocated our cordiality and put proper value on our friendship.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter