Example sentences for: retired

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

  • (OK, I didn't predict the whole impeachment thing, but Clinton getting caught in a second-term sex scandal had about all the shock value of your typical episode of Scooby Doo .) The article then quotes a retired banker in Amherst who said he was angry at the poor example Clinton has set for children, and that since he is making character his top priority, he's voting for George W. Bush.

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

  • Chamber of Commerce types welcomed this parks-bond trick, but other members of the populace were not so gratified, among them 66-year-old Nora Harris, a self-described "retired housewife."

  • Conservatively dressed businessmen escort impeccably coiffed women, while retired gentlemen in cardigans, jackets and ties play chess or petanca (a game resembling marbles, but played with heavy shot-puts) in the park.

  • Miscellany: Retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan died.


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