Sentence examples for Retrieve from inspiring English sources

The word "retrieve" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a verb to mean to take or get back something that you previously had or owned. For example: She retrieved her lost wallet from the lost and found.

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Retrieve

verb

To regain or get back something.

  • To retrieve one's character or independence

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But the truth is it already has, and it is hard to see how Kiev can retrieve the lost territory without the use of force on a scale that would be hard to contain – and that the precarious Kiev government may not even have.

Laser physicists have built a reversible tractor beam and are using it to retrieve tiny particles.

Back it comes left, now, and Qld are lined up in bombing formation but Thurston throws a wild ball that he has to run 10m back to retrieve.

The site of the pipeline break, six miles upstream from the high-plains city of Glendive, Montana, is almost entirely capped in ice, complicating efforts to retrieve the oil and slowing the response process.

These stressful thoughts, not surprisingly, can block your brain's ability to retrieve what is stored in its memory, as well as making it harder to understand the questions and organise your thoughts.

Everett (George Clooney) is self-elected leader of three chain-gang escapees who set out to retrieve the $1.2m bank heist loot he claims to have buried.

Apple's statement said: "Regardless of the circumstances, our legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities.

Updated at 3.49pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.50pm BST14:50 Peter Sagan has dropped from the back of the peloton, and his Cannondale team-mates have had to give up their position to retrieve him.

In the new box office topper, a shorts-wearing sea sponge attempts to retrieve a secret recipe from a pirate played by Antonio Banderas.

Just hours after the Guardian story appeared Thoronka was arrested in south London by plainclothes police officers when he was running back to a park to retrieve his bag.

Informed sources say he will not be able retrieve his costs from the crown for the Scottish trial despite being acquitted.

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