Example sentences for: retires

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

  • In one crucial scene, the vagabond artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio retires with Rose (Kate Winslet) to her sitting room, where he makes a nude sketch of her sitting on a divan as the languorous hours tick by.

  • Rubin's fans hope he'll take over the Fed next year if Chairman Alan Greenspan retires.

  • When Yates retires at the end of this congressional term at 89, he will have served in the House, but for one two-year interruption, since 1948.

  • (Prudie even retires to the ladies' room to use her gold toothpick.)

  • Among other distortions, it assumes that everyone retires at 65, although two-thirds of all workers stop paying in and start collecting benefits earlier than that--which reduces the disadvantage of a shorter life span.


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