How to Use retainer in a Sentence

retainer

noun
  • The Jeep then hit a retainer wall and side-swiped a fourth vehicle, the school bus.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Don't be one of them — don a pair of eyewear retainers to keep them attached to you.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Brokers smooth the process, no questions asked, for a cut of the sale or a monthly retainer.
    Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Johnny met McMahon at the Panera the next day and gave him a $5,000 cash retainer.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
  • The village will pay Byron’s law firm a retainer of $4,043 per month.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
  • So Ovitz wrote Fields a check for $5 so put him on retainer, so he couldn’t be sued by the attorney.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Yet Bankman-Fried sounded very much like a man with white shoe firms on retainer.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • As time went on – with the team still paying the monthly retainer – the agreement was revised.
    Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2020
  • With most guns, that means removing a retainer from the top of the magazine tube.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Anna is blonde and tall and gawky, with braces; Maya is shorter, with a bowl cut forced on her by her mother, and a retainer.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Gabrielle Union even showed off her retainer in a cute makeup-free selfie.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Dec. 2022
  • My friend wears a retainer and removes it at the dinner table, even in restaurants.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
  • At one point, Pembroke Pines had at least three outside law firms on retainer.
    Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • The pair are about to go to the park—without bodyguards—and Prince Leka II takes me inside, to the drawing room, where the faithful retainer brings me an espresso.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • It may be covered already by the retainer being paid to the attorney/law firm.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
  • And sure enough, Bergen, who’s such a staple of these inductions that SNL should have her on retainer, joined the pair to sing the women’s section’s praises.
    Vulture, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Will buyers and sellers agree to pay an hourly rate plus expenses, with a retainer to be held in trust and payable whether or not the seller sells or the buyer buys?
    WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • During the early months of her business, Soo started with her first client paying her on retainer, as many PR firms do.
    Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • If a gear ball retainer breaks, the gear balls can become wedged and potentially make the steering wheel unable to rotate.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Not to mention that the teeth would probably begin to shift back without getting a retainer.
    Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Many firms already have the necessary talent on staff or on retainer.
    Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The village paid a retainer of $3,200 for the handwriting analysis.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Each time, he was asked if the description on the invoice — denoting a retainer for that month — was accurate.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Can your client grow via a monthly retainer or by helping their clients to receive a percentage of money earned?
    Yec, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Next came stronger valve springs and pushrods with titanium retainers (these helped allow the redline to increase by 800 revs).
    Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2023
  • John Webster, its owner, bakes sawdust and wood chips into biomass that, when mixed with soil, acts as a sponge and nutrient retainer.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • Episodes overflow with bizarre images, like a succubus who mounts her victim, then calmly removes a retainer and sets it on the night table.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • And the company leading the way for clear aligners that straighten teeth is Align, which makes the popular Invisalign retainers.
    Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Trump’s business concealed the true purpose of the payments, the filing said, by recording them as having been for a legal retainer that did not exist.
    Charlie Savage, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023

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