Sentence for retentive | Use retentive in a sentence

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• Possibly I have not a retentive ear. (7)
• Instruction in those days was chiefly oral, a method which placed a premium on a retentive memory. (3)
• The farmer bore with her dreary rattling of the box in demonstration of its retentive capacities. (10)
• The farmer bore with her dreary rattling of the box in demonstration of its retentive capacities. (22)
• The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! (4)

Also see sentences for: attentive, inattentive, incentive, inventive.

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