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Example sentences for "still retains"

  • He gave the Chapter of Wells a new constitution, which, with some changes in detail, it still retains.

  • My friend the Sub-Dean can bear witness that, though his rectory and advowson have gone elsewhere, he still retains, or very lately retained, some small remnants of ecclesiastical jurisdiction among my neighbours at Wookey.

  • The deer which roam about in it are so tame that they will eat out of the hands of strangers, and even when it is crowded {115} with holiday-makers it still retains something of the old-fashioned aroma of days long gone by.

  • On resigning, he was made vice president, which position he still retains.

  • That Charles Bradburn is a merchant long and honorably known in the commercial history of Cleveland, and that he still retains a prominent place in the business circles which he entered thirty-three years ago, are undeniable facts.

  • Success attended his efforts as a wheat grower and he became one of the extensive operators of the wheat belt, acquiring large holdings which he still retains.

  • A quarter section of this he afterward deeded to his two older sons upon his retirement from active business, but he still retains ownership of four hundred acres, which he rents to his sons.

  • In 1911 he sold the Umatilla county property and bought a farm in Whitman county, Washington, near Lacrosse, which he still retains.

  • First National Bank, in 1864, which position he still retains.

  • He gave this name to the river, which it still retains, in honor of the Admiral Montmorency, to whom he dedicated his notes on the voyage of 1603.

  • The "Island of Orleans" soon became the fixed name of this island, which it still retains.

  • Mr. Suffield, to whose courtesy I am indebted for the loan of the rare print from which the frontispiece to this little book is copied, then occupied the premises near the bottom of the street, which he still retains.

  • The Royal party had to stay all night, and the inn at which they slept, henceforth took the additional title of "Victoria Hotel," which it still retains.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flowers from; made great; prima donna; reduce them; should bear; still alive; still called; still continued; still continues; still didn; still earlier; still going; still here; still larger; still later; still observed; still other; still others; still possible; still remained; still smiling; still speaking; still standing; still tongue; still young; would present