Sentence examples for I retained a from inspiring English sources

"I retained a respectful distance, as any ex-manager should do.

"Maybe it was best that I hadn't really been forced into reading books I didn't like at school, because I retained a love of literature," he said.

This time, though, when I came down, I retained a sense of illumination and insight; I had had a sort of revelation about migraine.

"I clerked for Justice O'Connor," it read, "and although I disagreed with several of her votes, I retained a hope that these were principled differences of judicial approach.

As I grew older I retained a sense of missing out on something even though, post-punk, I espoused a hatred of Christmas and all its consumerist horror.

My wife and I retained a "fertility consultant" to help us find an egg donor who matched some of my wife's diverse ethnic background, which, as we explained, is part ethnic Hawaiian.

Still, I retain a soft spot for Home Fires, maybe out of British patriotism.

The book may be shocking but I retain a sense of optimism.

"I retain a very physical memory of a book for some time after reading it," he says.

I retain a fondness for my experience, for people in the field, and for movies on the subject.

Indeed, even with the benefit of hindsight, I retain a sneaking regard for the Jeremy of old.