RETIREMENT in a Sentence

Learn RETIREMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

267 example sentences for RETIREMENT, such as:

1. He is due to retire as chief executive next year.
2. He has no plans to retire as editor of the magazine.
3. The officer ordered the troop to retire from the action.
4. He will retire from the army / his directorship next year.
5. She has a few thousand dollars put away for her retirement.

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 Meanings and Examples of RETIREMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
retirement
 n.  period of your life after you have stopped work at a certain age
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Often, likewise, one was the guest of the other in his place of study and retirement.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
2  It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
3  On everything there was the same air of retirement and cleanliness that marked the house outside.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
4  As if, in the retirement of the house made almost sacred to me by her presence, Dora and I must be happier than anywhere.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
5  These two ladies now emerged from their retirement, and proposed to take Dora to live at Putney.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
6  He had, he said, only one real ambition left--to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
7  To tell you the truth, I had been looking forward to my retirement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  One, to Mr. Bounderby, announcing his retirement from that part of the country, and showing where he would be found for the next fortnight.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
9  He should not have to think of her as pining in the retirement of Mansfield for him, rejecting Sotherton and London, independence and splendour, for his sake.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  India bowed coldly and, putting her hand upon the door knob, intimated silently that his speedy retirement would be welcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
12  I love retirement and silence, because I can live with my thoughts and recollections of past days.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
13  I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  He takes the place left vacant by the daughter's retirement.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
15  The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  She has a few thousand dollars put away for her retirement.
17  The story of Sir Fred Goodwin and his retirement bounty is exactly why the Banking system in this country cannot carry on as at present.
18  His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
19  How about the freedom to not have to worry that some greedy profiteer is going to plunder all of my retirement options?
20  After his retirement, the former police commissioner found it difficult to abnegate authority.
21  For many, the most important saving they have is for a pension for their retirement.
22  The benign explanation is that much of it reflects demographic trends, particularly the aging and early retirement of baby boomers.
23  According to the new regulations,mining engineers retire at the age of fifty-five.
24  She was forced to retire early from teaching because of ill health.
25  The officer ordered the troop to retire from the action.
26  He will retire from the army / his directorship next year.
27  The two leaders will retire to Camp David for informal discussions.
28  At the age when most people retire, he is ready to face a new career.
29  He is due to retire as chief executive next year.
30  He has no plans to retire as editor of the magazine.