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retire

How to use retire in a sentence

Will the new issues promptly retire when their special task is over?

The unhappy applicant was naturally obliged to temporarily retire from the game, at all events for that night.

A lineman was sent out to repair it under escort of civil guards, who were forced by the rebels to retire.

“I understood, Baron, that you had quite made up your mind to retire within a very few weeks,” said David Arden.

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"Perhaps you will not care to retire, and would rather sit out where the air is best," she suggested.

It was there that he longed to retire—to a dainty little hotel of his own with a smart clientèle.

The elder Mr. Weller drove a coach for twelve months, but, being afflicted with the gout, was compelled to retire.

Sir Edward Bruce is said to have decided the question by a point-blank refusal to retire.

The situation was hopeless; the only wise course was to evacuate all garrisons in Germany and retire on the Saale.

This brief direction to Charley Bates and his recent antagonist to retire, was softly and immediately obeyed.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985