response
noun
an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
responseless
-
a word derived from
response.
Example Sentences
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These questions Rotha had asked herself a hundred times, and through the responseless hours of the long days and longer nights of more than a week she had lived on somehow, somehow, somehow.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
It was responseless like her lips, and sick at heart I raised the limp figure in the chair.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
The beauty they had known lay here; soulless, inert, rigid and responseless, but here.
From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green
The base, cold crowd, that nought admire, Stood round, responseless to his fire, With heavy eye and mocking tongue.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
