How to Use retire in a Sentence

retire

verb

• She had to retire during the first set because of a muscle strain.
• I want to be healthy when I retire.
• The manufacturer plans to retire that car model in a few years.
• The team is retiring his jersey number in honor of his great career.
• The Navy is retiring the old battleship.
• This city was ranked the best place to retire in Arizona.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
• The new cars would replace some that were meant to retire decades ago.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• Grote retired after the 1978 season to spend more time with his wife and kids.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Newman, who will turn 72 this month, is expected to retire by the end of the year.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2023
• All are at least 60 years old, and many are retired, like Turner.
  — Oscar Hartzog, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
• Laine retired from Two Chicks and a Hammer in 2019, but remained part of the series.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Clune succeeds Tim Carter, who will retire in the first quarter of 2024.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Under the terms of the package, Culp could retire and walk away with the money this August.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The right-hander retired eight in a row at one point and 19 of 21 overall to finish the outing.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
• But in May, Steinberg will retire and a new leader will take his place.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
• Cabrera, who is planning to retire at the end of the season, had a pair of hits off Pérez on Tuesday.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• Perhaps what pushed Lee Sedol to retire from the game of Go was the sense that the game had been forever cheapened.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Moving to Paris in the mid-1950s Mullen continued to work, retiring prior to the Youthquake.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The 89-year-old is the oldest member of the Senate and has faced mounting pressure to retire.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Earlier this year the company retired the twitter.com domain name in a full move to x.com on the web.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
• The tennis power couple, who have both since retired from the sport, went on to wed in 2001 and are now parents of two.
  — Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2023
• The Times ranked the top 10 best places to retire in California for most people.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
• Canning needed to retire one more batter to get out of the sixth inning.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Bierman has since retired but leaves the 641 hp Ioniq 5 N as part of his legacy.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
• Leach plans to retire at the end of April 2024 after a nearly nine-year career with the company.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• With Taillon working quickly to retire the Mets, Megill wasn’t afforded much of a breather in the dugout.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
• Show business will have to retire me, or health will have to intervene.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• With the bases loaded and one out, senior pitcher Adrian Boles retired back-to-back batters to seal the win.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• Dwyane Wade may be retired from the NBA, but he’s still being given his flowers for his iconic sports contributions.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 29 Oct. 2024
• After the band members were done using it, the original prototype was retired, taken apart and put in storage.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024