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Example sentences for "retired from"

  • Retired from Company's service, 1851; appointed same year a member of the council of government; subsequently a member of the Legislative Council of Vancouver Island.

  • After he retired from business he became a magistrate for the county of Cheshire, and greatly interested himself in the restoration of Chester cathedral.

  • The year after I retired from business, in 1891, I visited Costa Rica with my eldest daughter, to inspect the railway in which we were much interested.

  • He retired from Parliament in 1794, on a pension of six thousand dollars.

  • His military operations within his territory against the Indians were disastrous, and when he retired from office he was almost ruined in fortune.

  • No man took office with purer motives, or retired from it with a better claim to have faithfully discharged its duties.

  • On the 15th of June he was made chairman of the Board of War and continued in that important station until he retired from Congress.

  • He retired from that to his home in Virginia and for a time enjoyed domestic life.

  • The next year he retired from office to his country estate, and gave himself up to amusements and sensual pleasure.

  • Pompeius retired from office; but, two years later, he assumed command in the war against the pirates.

  • We only know, that, when he retired from office, he was condemned and put to death by the ruling class.

  • He retired from post to post, and evacuated town after town, and fortress after fortress, without resistance, or appearance of resistance, as if he was resigning them to the rightful owners.

  • Fred Roe, 16 Sep 97] Many of the inns once famous in the annals of the road have now "retired from business" and have taken down their signs.

  • When I retired from business I was only forty-eight years old, which may be considered the prime of life.

  • I may mention that when I retired from business, and took out of it the fortune that had accumulated during my twenty-two years of assiduous attention and labour, I invested the bulk of it in Three per cent Consols.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retired from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    autumn leaves; came towards; chemical analysis; chop very; comes home; devil take; each knight; easy prey; happened that; lifting surface; milk should; million miles; octave higher; quickly followed; recovering himself; retired from; silence fell; stood away; these cases; this side; vital energy; would drive