How to Use retainer in a Sentence

retainer

noun

• The Jeep then hit a retainer wall and side-swiped a fourth vehicle, the school bus.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
• Don't be one of them — don a pair of eyewear retainers to keep them attached to you.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
• Brokers smooth the process, no questions asked, for a cut of the sale or a monthly retainer.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Johnny met McMahon at the Panera the next day and gave him a $5,000 cash retainer.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
• The village will pay Byron’s law firm a retainer of $4,043 per month.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
• So Ovitz wrote Fields a check for $5 so put him on retainer, so he couldn’t be sued by the attorney.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2022
• Yet Bankman-Fried sounded very much like a man with white shoe firms on retainer.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
• As time went on – with the team still paying the monthly retainer – the agreement was revised.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2020
• With most guns, that means removing a retainer from the top of the magazine tube.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• Anna is blonde and tall and gawky, with braces; Maya is shorter, with a bowl cut forced on her by her mother, and a retainer.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• Gabrielle Union even showed off her retainer in a cute makeup-free selfie.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Dec. 2022
• My friend wears a retainer and removes it at the dinner table, even in restaurants.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
• At one point, Pembroke Pines had at least three outside law firms on retainer.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• The pair are about to go to the park—without bodyguards—and Prince Leka II takes me inside, to the drawing room, where the faithful retainer brings me an espresso.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
• It may be covered already by the retainer being paid to the attorney/law firm.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
• And sure enough, Bergen, who’s such a staple of these inductions that SNL should have her on retainer, joined the pair to sing the women’s section’s praises.
  — Vulture, 3 Dec. 2023
• Will buyers and sellers agree to pay an hourly rate plus expenses, with a retainer to be held in trust and payable whether or not the seller sells or the buyer buys?
  — WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• During the early months of her business, Soo started with her first client paying her on retainer, as many PR firms do.
  — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• If a gear ball retainer breaks, the gear balls can become wedged and potentially make the steering wheel unable to rotate.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Not to mention that the teeth would probably begin to shift back without getting a retainer.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• Many firms already have the necessary talent on staff or on retainer.
  — Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• The village paid a retainer of $3,200 for the handwriting analysis.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Each time, he was asked if the description on the invoice — denoting a retainer for that month — was accurate.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 14 May 2024
• Can your client grow via a monthly retainer or by helping their clients to receive a percentage of money earned?
  — Yec, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Next came stronger valve springs and pushrods with titanium retainers (these helped allow the redline to increase by 800 revs).
  — Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2023
• John Webster, its owner, bakes sawdust and wood chips into biomass that, when mixed with soil, acts as a sponge and nutrient retainer.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022
• Episodes overflow with bizarre images, like a succubus who mounts her victim, then calmly removes a retainer and sets it on the night table.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• And the company leading the way for clear aligners that straighten teeth is Align, which makes the popular Invisalign retainers.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• There were 219 inmates with an immigration retainer in late March, Hoy said.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024