Sentence examples for retainer in from inspiring English sources

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His wife retains a blind fondness for the family's oldest retainer, in effect a slave procured as a child to raise her children and cook the delicious dishes of his impoverished background, a situation that will bring about a tragedy of injustice and misplaced loyalty worthy of Conrad at his darkest.

But there will be no new retainer in the new year, when he will ride as a freelance if he is not linked to a new employer.

Toyota said friction may occur between the assembly's spiral cable and the retainer in some vehicles and, over time, cut the connection to the driver's airbag.

Ronald Welch can usually be counted on for a good castle or two, with a gruff but kindly wizened Welsh retainer in every one.

According to two people familiar with the case, Mr. Critchley remained on the case even though Mr. Chang stopped paying his monthly retainer in the fall 1999.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, September 4, 1943 P. 16 Dossie, an old retainer in the service of Mrs. Walsingham rebels against the new social order.

In connection with that issue, ESPN reported on Sunday that Rodriguez had paid Bosch's lawyer a $25,000 retainer in February to assist in Bosch's legal defense.

Instead of visiting the orthodontist to have braces adjusted, patients would simply switch to the next retainer in the series every two weeks.

Born into the line of the British succession, Harewood was, by contrast and choice, a retainer in the world of music and theatre.

(Some of the old staff can still be found lurking in the clubhouse, gazing out at the devastation like Alpatych, the loyal retainer in "War and Peace," after the army has laid waste to his master's estate).

No taxes are collected, in fact, on behalf of the local British, who live behind stockades, he pays the Pathans an annual retainer in an attempt to keep them pacified.

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