Sentence examples for retentiveness from inspiring English sources

He tried to remember her name — Miss Dent, Miss Bent, Miss Lent — and he was surprised to find that he could not remember it, although he was proud of the retentiveness and reach of his memory and it had only been six months ago.

On another generational front on July 4 at Citi Field, Kevin Hogan, 54, of Richmond, Va., said keeping score by hand "helps fuel my anal retentiveness".

Stationery is associated with dull-witted anal retentiveness, being ancillary to more important tasks.

The only answer is to beef up the moisture retentiveness of the soil as much as possible with leaf mould, garden compost or whatever you have available, and then choose your plants from a limited range.