Jack had no chance to make any sort of reply.

There was some sort of reply from the other end.

The violence of his reply should have told me something.

White has a number of replies to this opening, including 3.

In the weeks and months that followed he received no sign of reply.

That wasn't the sort of reply he'd wanted to hear.

She looked at me to determine the truth of my reply.

I thought of several cutting replies, but something about the look on her face made me hold them back.

She thought of several replies, mostly to the effect that!

How had she learned precisely what the best sort of reply would be?