Sentence examples for a retaining from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a retaining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to something that holds or keeps something else in place, such as in construction or legal terminology.
Example: "The engineer designed a retaining wall to prevent soil erosion on the hillside."
Alternatives: "a holding" or "a containment".

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The retaining wall needs a retaining wall.

A retaining wall performs that job, a retaining wall that almost miraculously appears intact.

But the car was stopped by a retaining post.

The stone will be laid temporarily in a retaining wall.

The car went straight up, into a retaining wall".

The back of the shell acts as a retaining wall, while steel columns support the front.

No Indy 500 winner had ever played Spiderman with a retaining fence along the main straightaway.

True to form on Sunday, Castroneves led his pit crew in climbing a retaining fence.

Along the way, Gross and Spears threw the gun and the VCR over a wire fence into a retaining pond.

Kalitta died June 21 in Englishtown, N.J., after his funny car burst into flames and slammed into a retaining barrier.

Swinging into playground mode, I started making a retaining wall, adding old pop bottles and clay drainpipes.

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