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retrieving
Example Sentences
There was no sign of Ferrier, and Hogue gave up the idea of retrieving her as well.
Many in the audience nodded in approval, and then Bergdahl talked about the work of retrieving his son.
Retrieving him at least reminds soldiers that we will never abandon them to their fates, right or wrong.
The hacker code that pulled and published millions was retrieving numbers at a rate of 1,500 each minute.
She said in documents that he had kicked her out of the home then prevented her at gunpoint from retrieving her young child.
Then, retrieving their net, they once more fastened Raf into it and turned downstream, as intent as ever upon reaching the sea.
I stood up and began retrieving the torn papers; they passed them back to me without saying anything.
He saw his errors now—only too plainly—but they were beyond retrieving.
On this impossibility of retrieving the past the force of the argument entirely depends.
He was dropping the ball and picking it up, bouncing it on the ground and catching it, retrieving it in every manner imaginable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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