How to Use retinue in a Sentence

retinue

noun

• The British monarch and her retinue are very good at this, and this is why Britons keep them around.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
• What if there had been the normal retinue of staffers on hand?
  — Paul Schwartzman and Peter Jamison, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
• The star and its retinue of worlds will enter Earth’s transit zone in about 1,600 years.
  — Tess Joosse, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• As a teenager, Mr. Kerr joined the Ellington retinue on tour.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• By Viserys slaying the great beast (with most of the heavy lifting done by his royal retinue) the boy's birthright to the throne would be sealed.
  — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2022
• This retinue moved in two different modes: search and chase.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
• Before Rhaenyra and Criston Cole returned to the royal retinue, they were approached by the animal in the woods.
  — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2022
• But the king does not sound all that assured lording it over retinue and family.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• Country singer Travis Tritt is removing the King of Beers from his own royal retinue.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
• Stalin and his retinue lodged at the Koreiz Villa, also known as the Yusupov Palace.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• The queen demanded that she and her retinue be accommodated at the castle for the night, which was her right.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• The rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and its retinue of stars led the Egyptians to invent the 24-hours timekeeping system still used today.
  — TIME, 15 Dec. 2023
• Jackson’s journey has wound through the White House and across the globe, treating the blisters, stomach ailments and more of the past three presidents and their retinues.
  — Laurie Kellman, The Seattle Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• By the end of the video, Parks’ retinue includes five people who are also pretty chill about Parks vibing out with headphones on.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
• To the young male actors in his retinue in Santa Barbara in the 1970s, Gary Goddard was an exalted figure.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• The lively retiree, too, has a retinue at Panchos & Gringos.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Charles and his retinue will be keenly aware of these existential threats to his tenure.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 May 2023
• Ruth was raised by her father, who never remarried, and by a retinue of servants.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
• Moving in cosmic currents, our star completes a lap of the Milky Way every 230 million years or so, with its retinue of planets in tow.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 June 2020
• The bulk of available evidence hints that Drake’s great quest may not be in vain; data indicate most stars harbor a retinue of worlds.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022
• Lutnick quickly noticed White wore no tie and arrived with no retinue.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
• Rae employed a retinue of primarily Black writers and directors who gave the show a house style.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Their faces and figures, as molded by Goodman and her retinue of artists, influenced the taste of a generation.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2019
• Royal Island, a swanky Caribbean oasis in The Bahamas, awaits its next king or queen and their lucky retinue of family and friends.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2024
• Eleanor, who still wanted an annulment (or maybe a widowhood), travelled in her own ship with her own retinue.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2018
• Pruitt had acquired a custom S.U.V., biometric locks on his office door, a forty-three-thousand-dollar soundproof phone booth, and a retinue of round-the-clock guards.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• In 1615 the sultan of Morocco arrived with his retinue to witness for himself the villa’s splendors.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2022
• Her all-male retinue of staff members striding briskly beside her were also maskless.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• His retinue wore combat fatigues and traveled in a bus labeled camp lejeune, after the U.S. Marine base.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2020
• Other diners stole quick glances at the pair and their Secret Service retinue, but no one interrupted the couple’s evening out.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2017

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