How to Use semiretirement in a Sentence

semiretirement

noun
  • The truth is, Lennon did not send out a news release announcing his semiretirement.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Xie, 71, was pulled out of semiretirement this year to resume the role of China’s climate envoy.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Metro was forced to bring some older buses out of semiretirement to keep routes going in the interim.
    Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Or new powers set to be granted to an obscure body called the State Council could give Putin, who is now 67, a venue to fill a father-of-the-nation role in semiretirement.
    Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • But the public health crisis that recently brought him out of semiretirement, at age 74, may be his most challenging yet.
    Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Judge Robert King of West Virginia rescinded his decision to take senior status (a form of semiretirement that creates a vacancy on the bench).
    Laurie Lin and David Lat, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Starting at age 65, a judge may retire at his or her current salary or take senior status (a form of semiretirement) after 15 years of active service, according to uscourts.gov.
    Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2020
  • That explains how Draghi, 74 — pulled in from semiretirement to become prime minister — now finds himself again on the world stage, hosting a Group of 20 summit where the issues in play are at least as complicated as anything from his past.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The Radiators went into semiretirement almost a decade ago.
    NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Emil Jannings is the hotel doorman whose life is ruined when he is shunted to semiretirement as a lavatory attendant and his beautiful uniform is taken away from him.
    Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
  • Church leaders said during the faith’s fall General Conference that Gay had been granted emeritus status, similar to semiretirement from the role’s day-to-day duties.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But that semiretirement coincides with his party’s—and perhaps the planet’s—last chance to reverse a cataclysmic trajectory toward climate devastation.
    Kara Voght, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
  • By 2006, however, Mr. Redstone appeared to have retreated into semiretirement.
    Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2020

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