Example sentences for: retain

How can you use “retain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The new matrices are thus unlikely to be functional, but retain the same specificity.

  • To respond to these changing business needs, the leading organizations we visited developed finance teams with the right mix of skills and competencies and built finance organizations that attract and retain talent as part of an overall strategic approach to human capital planning.

  • Despite the fact that Scotland was allowed to retain its own legal system, education system, and national Presbyterian Church, the move was opposed by the great majority of Scots.

  • The Communists will probably retain a plurality in the Duma, and "reformist views may be more strongly represented."

  • And Thomas concludes that Sacks succeeds for all the familiar Sacks reasons: Because he shows "how patients who are truly isolated and insulated by a disease can retain their humanity, their dignity."


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