Example sentences for: retrieve

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

  • On most, a few mouse clicks will retrieve the five-day forecast for any ZIP code, any city, any state, any nation--complete with smiling sun/frowning raindrop animations.

  • Automated medical, pharmacy, and claims records of the study population were screened to identify potential study subjects and retrieve their outpatient blood pressure data.

  • Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.

  • The GenBank records were parsed in order to obtain the protein sequence, taxonomic information and additional accessions that were used to retrieve the corresponding GenBank nucleotide records.

  • And if you do miss something, you can always retrieve it (free) from our archive, "The Compost."


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