Example sentences for: retired

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

  • In America, his colleagues are mostly defeated (Miss Mudd, his predecessor on his first job, has retired early in disgust) when they aren't sadistic.

  • When Larry Bird and Magic Johnson retired six years ago, they left the National Basketball Association in the capable hands of Michael Jordan.

  • Salon , he says, is bankrolled by companies run by Clinton donors--Apple (Steve Jobs), Adobe (John Warnock), and Hambrecht & Quist (William Hambrecht, now retired).

  • Taught by retired Army guys, JROTC courses cover history, current events, technology, communications, physical fitness, and the ever popular shooting.

  • The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.


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