Sentence examples for as retiring from inspiring English sources

Why would someone as retiring as Mr. Rechnitz suddenly open his checkbook to pay for two potentially neighborhood-changing projects in Brooklyn?

Blanche Knopf was not as retiring as Giroux, but with her husband she played much the same role, and added ballast to his bluster.

Lynne, as retiring as anyone could be while planted in front of a stageful of churning activity, is plainly unprepared for the school-disco joy that greets the night's biggest barnstormers, Livin' Thing and Mr Blue Sky.

"Nobody thought of him as retiring".

That is not the same as retiring".

I mean, in my business, there is no such thing as retiring at 65.

The virulence between Nathan & Nancy had not so much been resolved as retired.

But among the 90 players auctioned off to the six teams some are not quite as retired as others.

P17 Veteran newsreader Peter Sissons doesn't want to be branded as retired.

Retirement can also only be estimated, as retired, inactive pharmacists do not legally have to remain registered.

Retirement farms are operated by people who classify themselves as retired.