Example sentences for: retired

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

  • Prince Henry retired to what was known as the “end-of-the-world,” the Sagres peninsula in the Algarve (see page 101).

  • Miscellany: Retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan died.

  • On the site's "Conception" page, the world's oldest father is identified as Leslie Colley, a retired Australian mineworker who sired a son named Oswald in 1992.

  • About Schmidt , his new book which explores the dwindling years of a morose retired lawyer, a man who calls himself "the last of the Wasps," offers some of his most delicate writing yet, but once again involves Begley in the paradoxical task of giving expression to repression.

  • A civic cause that includes self-described "limousine liberal" billionaire George Soros, retired Reaganite statesman George Shultz, and Gail Zappa (widow of counterculture hero Frank) is not exactly narrow or shady sounding.


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