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Example sentences for "retiring"

Lexicographically close words:
retired; retirement; retirements; retirer; retires; retold; retook; retorne; retorned; retort
  1. You will therefore at least pardon my advising you, to place those sums, which by your retiring I presume you do imploy upon payment of debts, in such places as that these particular friends be not forced to leave being so.

  2. In fact, the whims of this Malvolio are intended to put everyone on and off the stage into high spirits, and even Portia is carried away by the fun as she mimics the retiring suitor in her exclamation to the servant.

  3. Mr. Price was modest and retiring in manner, affable in disposition, and benevolent to a fault.

  4. At the close of the war he left the active military service of the government, retiring with the brevet of Brigadier General, conferred for valuable and meritorious services.

  5. For a time he meditated retiring altogether from the telegraph business and embarking in newspaper life, for which his early training had given him a taste, and towards which he always maintained an affection.

  6. The traveller turned at the sound, to make acquaintance with Hans Becher; for it was Hans Becher, very much metamorphosed from the retiring German of a year ago.

  7. Ole watched them out of sight, then turned back to the door; the mood of the heroic passed, once more the timid, retiring Swede.

  8. Grant Takes Command=] Grant was a modest and retiring man.

  9. Still the retreat and pursuit continued, the allies retiring to Moravia, whither the French, laden with an immense booty from their victories, rapidly followed.

  10. In March, 1894, to the consternation of his party, he announced his intention of retiring from public life.

  11. It is known that the Podesta, Captain, and many other magistrates were subjected to an investigation or sindacato, on retiring from office.

  12. Then perhaps because the retiring Consuls continued in office with the new ones for a few days, or from some other passing cause that is unknown to us.

  13. Quick as thought, Philippa, who had been glancing out half carelessly, drew back, retiring to the farther end of her solitary compartment.

  14. Captain Koehl, whose detachment was assembled at Medo, was charged with the duty of holding up the enemy’s main force advancing from Port Amelia and retiring gradually on my force.

  15. March of Major-General Wahle in the West] After numerous minor engagements Major Kraut’s retiring divisions established themselves on the line of the Ruhudje and Ruaha rivers.

  16. General Wahle was retiring step by step up the Lukuledi river.

  17. But on the south side of Tanga Captain Baumstark had also brought his companies into action on the front, and after about one hour’s fighting I observed the Askari at this point retiring through the palm-trees to the Tanga-Pangani road.

  18. Its Moorish turrets have a soft rounded outline, and the undulations of the shore blend with the masonry of the castle; only a sharp retiring angle here and there gives an occasional glimpse of a grim purpose.

  19. The idea of retiring to the seclusion of her cabin while all this was going on was simply preposterous, and Mammy at once exhibited the soothing effect of the suggestion; so the play proceeded.

  20. Although not yet fifty-seven years old, he refused all offers of office and retiring to his estate near Bedford in Westchester county, N.

  21. He became widely known as a financier, retiring from active business in 1884.

  22. On either side were men's and women's resting rooms, 19 by 37, back of which were commodious toilet and retiring rooms.

  23. On the westerly side were the waiting rooms for men and women, writing rooms, and also retiring rooms and toilets.

  24. When the retiring hour came, Cousin Egbert and I prepared to take our blankets outside to sleep, but the Mixer would have none of this.

  25. Just before retiring again my attention centred a second time upon the bearskin before my bed and, forgetting that I had already inquired about it, I demanded of him if he had killed the animal.

  26. This disturbance, however, brought back Hasdrubal, who was retiring to the ocean, to protect his allies on this side the Iberus.

  27. The day was generally spent in provoking the enemy when quiet, and retiring when they offered resistance; in menacing, rather than making an attack.

  28. He could not give me his third daughter with the first unmarried, and he would not force her, he said, to change her wish of retiring from the world.

  29. It is true that in retiring I cast my eyes upon the company, right and left, who appeared to me much surprised.

  30. Thus she had Saint-Cyr for Versailles and for Marly; and at Marly also a particular retiring place; at Fontainebleau she had her town house.

  31. She had abandoned the project of retiring into Holland, where the States- General would not have her.

  32. She thought of retiring into Holland, but the States-General would have nothing to do with her, either at the Hague, or at Amsterdam.

  33. But Staremberg, having all the night to himself, succeeded in retiring in good order with seven or eight thousand men.

  34. Monseigneur, upon retiring late to his own room, found them smoking with pipes, which they had sent for from the Swiss Guards!

  35. In spite of his seemingly retiring manners a very intrusive person, this Secretary and lodger, in Miss Bella's opinion.

  36. I wonder whether she ever insisted on people's retiring into the ball of St Paul's; and if she did, how she got them there!

  37. Also, while he still grasped that feature, he directed several thoughtful looks down the street, after the retiring figure of Mr Boffin.

  38. Your grandmamma, if so addressed by one of her daughters, at any age, would have insisted on her retiring to a dark apartment.

  39. And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been.

  40. He was a quiet, retiring man, who sat early and late in his little shop, and went but once a year to Mosul or Shiraz, where he bought embroidered robes in exchange for attar of roses.

  41. Your duty may be an onerous one, but there are too few statesmen in England for you to think of retiring yet awhile.

  42. It had been the custom for centuries for English statesmen, upon retiring from official life, to devote themselves to the classics.

  43. Lord Beaconsfield was the retiring Lord Rector, and the Conservatives nominated Sir S.

  44. The members of the committee are elected for a term of three years, one retiring every year, and women as well as men are eligible for the office.

  45. This board of three members (not more than two of whom may be of the same political party) is elected by a joint ballot of the two houses of the legislature for a term of six years, one member retiring every two years.

  46. They are all elected: the commissioners for a term of six years, one retiring every two years, the register of deeds and the judge and the register of probate for a term of four years, and the others for two years.

  47. On retiring from the ministry with Turgot in 1776, he betook himself entirely to a happy country and domestic life and travelled through Switzerland, Germany and Holland.

  48. Stragglers report," was the reply, "that the enemy are evacuating Centreville, and retiring through Thoroughfare Gap.

  49. Winter had ushered itself prematurely into the presence of retiring Autumn.

  50. Schurz, who was still farther south, was retiring before the mass of Rebel troops, who came within reach of Milroy's guns, which thinned their ranks at every discharge.

  51. After crossing several small lake beds and old moraines--for the big Rongbuk Glacier seemed to have been retiring in the last few years--we came to the big moraine-covered Rongbuk Glacier.

  52. Mount Everest for its size is a singularly shy and retiring mountain.

  53. My experience furnishes me with no one instance in which it has not been danced previous to their retiring to rest.

  54. In the stern of this a few planks from the schooner had been firmly lashed, to serve as a shield against the weapons of the savages, and was so arranged as to conceal all within while retiring from the shore.

  55. The state proposed for the next few years to confine its attention to paying domestic claims and to retiring state obligations.

  56. Alabama, the state, as retiring partner, would hold them as assets until a final settlement, especially as its share had not been received.

  57. Basking in the reflected sunshine of his employer's success, Bowers came as near strutting as was possible for one of his retiring temperament.

  58. The Toomeys had lost no time in retiring after the entertainment, for the house, upon their return, was like a refrigerator.

  59. His conservative mind, retiring in good order, occupied the next rearward post of resistance.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retiring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aloof; backward; bashful; blank; cavernous; chilly; cold; concave; constrained; cool; cupped; declining; demure; detached; diffident; diminishing; discreet; distant; dwindling; dying; expressionless; fading; forbidding; frigid; frosty; guarded; hollow; icy; impassive; impersonal; inaccessible; incurved; introverted; lonely; lowly; meek; modest; offish; outgoing; private; quiet; receding; remote; removed; repressed; reserved; restrained; reticent; retiring; retreating; shrinking; shy; sinking; subdued; sunk; sunken; suppressed; timid; unapproachable; uncongenial; undemonstrative; unsocial; waning; withdrawn