Example sentences for: retrieving

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

  • As a practicing lexicographer (I have complied two Arabic bilingual dictionaries with illustrative sentences), but more important, as one who continually has trouble retrieving certain English words from my mental lexicon, I consider this book a real gold mine.

  • But retrieving that song from his memory bank helped to articulate his happiness, intensify it and prolong it.

  • A recent study looked at the process of indexing and retrieving medical information for populations of different ethnicity in several major health-related databases.

  • To cite just a few ancient examples, an Assyrian incantation for retrieving a fugitive slave begins with the following nonsense sequence: en ki-su-al-lu-ki.

  • "I began the year thinking the Internet would be used in storing, retrieving, and distributing information," he says.


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