Sentence examples for formal retainers from inspiring English sources
Great lords on either side had followings known as "affinities", comprising people on formal retainers as well as those under less rigid obligations.
Although the parties did not undertake a formal engagement, both the family and their retainers widely assumed that the match would take place.
The slow ramping-up will also give Clinton's fledging campaign team, currently a thrown-together mix of volunteers, staffers-in-waiting and longtime family friends, associates and retainers, a chance to impose a more formal and disciplined structure.
"As Firs, the octogenarian family retainer, Roberts Blossom is a tall, impish, bearded figure in formal black, stooping over his cane — a spindly, timeless ghost from the past, as rooted to the soil as the trees we never see," Frank Rich wrote in a review for The New York Times.
It's worth all your big retainers.
The daimyo's retainers were divided between fief holders and salaried retainers.
He was murdered by his retainers.
Finally, he went to ask the Harouni retainers for help.
