Sentence examples for very retired from inspiring English sources

Who could have guessed, a year or two ago, that the very retired Lemieux, age 35, would outlast Jagr, the 29-year-old superstar, in Pittsburgh?

I was very happily retired, actually, but I also was on the board, and I have a big investment in this company.

He still plays club cricket but, aged 41, is very definitely retired from the first-class game, which is why he will be in Dubai next week meeting up with five others who played in his solitary Test as part of rather more significant international careers.

Following the 1990 season, Parcells, with whom Taylor had become very close, retired, and the team was taken over by Ray Handley.

"The potential threat of weapons of mass destruction, likely in a simpler form than what people might imagine but still a form that would have a significant psychological impact, from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, is very, very real," Michael E. Leiter, who retired recently as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said at a security conference last month.

"I was a very shy, retiring reference librarian," he recalled.

Then Matty Bowen – Wigan's very own retiring hero – danced and spun his way over the line, converting to turn the game completely on its head.

Jim and I had worked a lot on the final speech Little Voice makes to her mother and talked about the very quiet, retiring kids in school who would hold their emotions in so long that one day, when they exploded, everyone was shocked.

"She was of an era that was very, very difficult for women," retired bullfighter Honey Anne Haskin, also known as Ana de Los Angeles, told The Times.

The Very Rev. Joel W. Pugh II, retired dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Ark., performed the ceremony at Christ Memorial Chapel in Hobe Sound, Fla.

"I'm very happy I retired because I was tired, but now I'm worried about my children," said Mrs. Antonetti, who taught Italian literature in the northern Italian town of Parma.