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in reply

adv. in answer; "he wrote back three days later"; "had little to say in reply to the questions" [syn: back]

Usage examples of "in reply".

As if in reply, Danica shot up suddenly behind one of the goblin guards.

He had briefed the Commissioner with a lengthy telephone call, and the Commissioner told Minogue in reply that, if asked by a reporter, he would dodge any reference to a link between the deaths of Brian Kelly and Paul Fine.

Seconds later, the voice of the Ganymede control operator crackled over the loud-speaker in reply.

Photographs of the young woman had been published broadcast, I knew, without eliciting a word in reply.

To Bowgentle he was courteous, showing familiarity with the poet-philosopher's writings, but in reply Bowgentle's voice shook with the effort of remaining polite.