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. She took to painting after retirement.
2. He's put aside a tidy sum for his retirement.
3. You're too young to be contemplating retirement.
4. Upon his retirement, the business devolved on his son.
5. We're having a collection for Tom's retirement present.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RETIREMENT
retirement
 n.  withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
 n.  withdrawal from your position or occupation
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 Mitchell
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)
1  He wanted to have a source of income after his retirement; until then, he wouldn't require additional money.
2  A flexible retirement age is being considered by Ministers to unify men's and women's pension rights.
3  The New York Times has this very laudatory article about your retirement.
4  Upon his retirement, the business devolved on his son.
5  You're too young to be contemplating retirement.
6  We're having a collection for Tom's retirement present.
7  She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.
8  She found it difficult to establish a new routine after retirement.
9  He announced his retirement as chief executive of the company.
10  The athlete will have one final fling before retirement.
11  Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income.
12  She took to painting after retirement.
13  He became a keen golfer after his retirement from politics.
14  He's put aside a tidy sum for his retirement.
15  He recently purged the armed forces, sending hundreds of officers into retirement.