Example sentences for: retainers

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

  • 9 million being distributed this year comes from the IOLTA fund, which is interest earned on money paid to lawyers as retainers or to cover court costs.

  • Thousands of visitors come annually to Sengakuji to lay incense on the tombstones and walk through the small museum called the Hall of the Loyal Retainers, where weapons, personal effects, and other memorabilia are preserved.

  • Nelson also carried out what was in effect a coup d'etat at Rockefeller Center, forcing out the retainers loyal to his father so that he could take over himself.

  • Asano’s clan steward, Oishi Kuranosuke, and forty-seven of his loyal retainers vowed revenge.

  • Edo expanded rapidly to accommodate Ieyasu’s 80,000 retainers and their families and the myriad common people who served their daily needs.


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