as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person
a campaign bus carrying the candidate, her retinue, and a gaggle of reporters and bloggers
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Recent Examples of retinue
Political elites—politicians and their retinues, interest groups, campaign donors, and media that stir up readers by applauding one side—orchestrated this process.
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Jonathan Schlefer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2021
He was taken to Manhattan by helicopter and met at the helipad by a massive retinue of heavily armed police led by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power.
—Amy Dubois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
The list of people’s stressors included arguments with a family member, work deadlines, an overload of home tasks and a retinue of ordinary daily hassles.
—Francine Russo, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
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Jonathan Schlefer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2021
He was taken to Manhattan by helicopter and met at the helipad by a massive retinue of heavily armed police led by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power.
—Amy Dubois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
The list of people’s stressors included arguments with a family member, work deadlines, an overload of home tasks and a retinue of ordinary daily hassles.
—Francine Russo, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
See All Example Sentences for retinue
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“Retinue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retinue. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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