Sentence for retained | Use retained in a sentence

Sentence using the word retained. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use retained in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for retained.

• He retained her hand. (10)
• Emma retained the hand. (10)
• The letter to Lady Arpington was retained. (10)
• The folly of having retained her stood before him. (10)
• She won and retained the eyes of her hearer sympathetically, it seemed. (10)
• Estranged, and soon to part, they retained the manner of accord up to the last. (8)
• He was going to follow: the portly dame retained him, and desired him to get her a cab. (10)
• Forced to give up so much, yet the French retained Cape Breton, with the right to fortify it. (19)
• It was largely the personal power and eminence of the master that attracted and retained pupils. (3)
• If her fingers were touched and retained, they continued to be fingers for as long as you pleased. (10)
• At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves. (4)
• She retained unimpaired her intense interest in politics, and still corresponded freely with prominent men. (8)
• Her vanishing seemed to say, that less of her belonged to him than the phantom his eyes retained behind them somewhere. (10)
• The feeling that, after all, she had won a sort of victory, retained her property, was every moment gaining ground in her. (8)
• Tone, Semitone and Tetrachord have retained their meaning, with the exception that in the modern tetrachord the halftone is at the other end. (3)
• Alone, the Restaurant Bretagne, neat, daintily painted, with its blue tubs and the dwarf trees therein, retained an aloof and Frenchified self-respect. (8)
• Dawney smiled; the features of his broad, clean-shaven face looked ridiculously small on such occasions, but his eyes retained their air of calculation. (8)

Also see sentences for: reserved, reticent, withheld.

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