Sentence examples for retard for from inspiring English sources

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They herded like stinking, bow-legged cattle and lauded the retard for his glass-skulled honesty – as if he'd overcome the ability to hide it.

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It defiantly refused to recognize "a 'mental retardation' bright-line exemption" even for those who "legitimately qualify" as mentally retarded for other purposes.

"But they just wouldn't ignite – they're already fire-retarded for use as flooring".

But it upheld the determination that Mr. Wood was not retarded for the purposes of Atkins.

Children and the severely retarded, for example, lack rationality, but they are undeniably human.

The term "retarded," for children deemed to have limited ability, comes from the early-20th-century practice of holding back (retarding) those who read below grade level.

If you develop a preference for green plantains, just keep them in the refrigerator; ripening can be retarded for weeks with no loss of quality.

Many a well-meaning person has innocently used words like "Negro" and "retarded," for example, and one is long gone, the other (I hope) is on the way out.

Although Vespasian is said to have hesitated before following his brother into the Senate, his career was in no sense retarded; for, after military service in Thrace and a quaestorship in Crete, he reached the praetorship in the earliest year allowed him by law, namely ad 39, the year in which his elder son, Titus, was born.

The hydrolysis of the nitrogen mustard moiety was retarded (for 1: approximately 130 vs. 11 min) in the presence of plasma proteins.

Besides, the distortion due to the chloroform attack was significantly retarded for the film containing sc cylindrites in contrast to sc spherulites and homocrystal cylindrites.

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