retainers
Example Sentences
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Having been absent for 20 years, he fears—and rightly—that he will be unrecognizable to family, retainers, and countrymen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Neither are hopeful of getting their retainers or their money back.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023
And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2023
Dude, it was so hard for me to try to do that on "SNL" when I had retainers in and they put two little jaws back here in the back of my cheeks.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023
Always one of his father’s retainers had made what toys he had.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
