Example sentences for: retains

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

  • Options are how the company attracts and retains smart young college graduates with no money and (most important) no lives.

  • This section also retains the requirements in the existing Section 412 concerning the use of substitute data when emission data from a CEMS or an approved alternative monitoring system are not available during any period and the owner or operator cannot provide information, satisfactory to the Administrator, on emissions during that period.

  • It will be noted, that the grouping of the numbers differs from country to country: the US retains xxx-xxxx, presumably as a hangover from the old days of telephone name-calling; in Britain, the (older) five-digit and the (newer) six-digit numbers are written solid: xxxxx(x); on the Continent, six-digit numbers are written in sets of two: xx-xx-xx.

  • Two more outsized rose windows illuminate the transept; the northern window retains most of its 13th-century glass.

  • Together these observations show that line A is poorly sensitive to T-RA-induced growth arrest and retains an essentially undifferentiated morphology, while growth of line B slows after 4-6 days of T-RA treatment and morphological differentiation is retarded.


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