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Example sentences for "retires"

Lexicographically close words:
retire; retired; retirement; retirements; retirer; retiring; retold; retook; retorne; retorned
  1. Ellénore at first behaves unexceptionably, refuses to receive him after his first declaration, and retires to the country.

  2. The wounded deer retires to solitude, And dies in solitude: all things but man, All die in solitude.

  3. Sidenote I: Night approaches, and then] [Sidenote J: Sir Gawayne takes his leave and retires to rest.

  4. Sidenote D: He retires to rest but sleeps but little,] [Sidenote E: for much has he to think of on the morrow.

  5. Again he retires to Dondon and organizes his forces to repel the Spaniards.

  6. To Raby, when the family retires to the drawing- room, the boy is more confidential, and she once more captivates him by entering heart and soul into his project and entreating to be made a party in the experiments.

  7. With which the young lord of creation retires to his cubicle, leaving Walker scratching his head, and regarding the five shillings in his hand in anything but a joyful mood.

  8. And the philosopher 'who retires under the shelter of a wall' can hardly have been esteemed happy by him, at least not in this world.

  9. Here Cephalus retires to look after the sacrifices, and bequeaths, as Socrates facetiously remarks, the possession of the argument to his heir, Polemarchus.

  10. The scup appears along the shores of the East Coast about the first of May, sometimes earlier, and continues until late in the fall, when it retires to its winter quarters in the depths of the sea.

  11. After spawning it retires to deeper water, and in summer locates in the deepest pools.

  12. The man then places copper, silver, and gold coins in the vessel, and the bride retires in triumph to her chamber.

  13. After the departure of the guests, the bridegroom retires to the bed-room with the bride.

  14. Mohammed then retires to the rooms set apart for him in a wing of the palace.

  15. Achmed leaves him, mounts a swift dromedary, and rides out into the night, and Mohammed retires to rest.

  16. But if nature is so various when you have a bough on the table before you, what must she be when she retires from you, and gives you her whole mass and multitude?

  17. And, as the canal retires back from the eye, he very geometrically diminishes the size of his ripples, until he arrives at an even field of apparently smooth water.

  18. White, who does not want to exchange his Bishop for Knight, retires it, so that he may play, should Black attack it (with 8.

  19. When all the figures have been erased the coup is made, and the player either begins a fresh game or retires from the table.

  20. B to R 4, he retires the Bishop, so as to avoid a double pawn.

  21. As fast as the snow retires from the sun-kissed slopes the flowers begin to come out.

  22. She retires sadly and joins her daughter].

  23. Her daughter repudiates her with an angry shrug and retires haughtily.

  24. Pickering retires to the easy-chair at the hearth and sits down.

  25. As often, then, as He retires from our observation, blending goodness with majesty, let us lay our hands upon our mouths and worship.

  26. No wonder the ungodly man hates their light, neither comes to their light, but retires from it farther and farther into the shades of guilty ignorance.

  27. When made angry he retires backwards, always facing his assailant, and shakes his head very forcibly.

  28. It conceals itself also in holes, yet it does not burrow like the rabbit, but retires into the cavities of rocks, where it is very easily taken.

  29. A Man thus armed, if his Words or Actions are at any time misinterpreted, retires within himself, and from the Consciousness of his own Integrity, assumes Force enough to despise the little Censures of Ignorance or Malice.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.