How to Use retire in a Sentence

retire

verb

• She had to retire during the first set because of a muscle strain.
• I want to be healthy when I retire.
• The manufacturer plans to retire that car model in a few years.
• The team is retiring his jersey number in honor of his great career.
• The Navy is retiring the old battleship.
• This city was ranked the best place to retire in Arizona.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
• The new cars would replace some that were meant to retire decades ago.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• Pujols will retire at the end of the year, along with Molina.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2022
• Then, at the end of the day, retire to your cozy cottage underneath the stars.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2024
• Grote retired after the 1978 season to spend more time with his wife and kids.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The DiLullos are happy to retire but sad to let go of The Venetian.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2022
• Newman, who will turn 72 this month, is expected to retire by the end of the year.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2023
• But he was allowed to retire on June 1, while on leave.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• All are at least 60 years old, and many are retired, like Turner.
  — Oscar Hartzog, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
• But once those originals retire from the road (or go to the great gig in the sky), what happens next?
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2022
• Laine retired from Two Chicks and a Hammer in 2019, but remained part of the series.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Clune succeeds Tim Carter, who will retire in the first quarter of 2024.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• And, like the suits in her closet, don't look to Behar to retire anytime soon.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
• Under the terms of the package, Culp could retire and walk away with the money this August.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The right-hander retired eight in a row at one point and 19 of 21 overall to finish the outing.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
• But in May, Steinberg will retire and a new leader will take his place.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
• Cabrera, who is planning to retire at the end of the season, had a pair of hits off Pérez on Tuesday.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• Perhaps what pushed Lee Sedol to retire from the game of Go was the sense that the game had been forever cheapened.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• That played a little bit of a role in my decision to retire.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• Moving to Paris in the mid-1950s Mullen continued to work, retiring prior to the Youthquake.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The 89-year-old is the oldest member of the Senate and has faced mounting pressure to retire.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Earlier this year the company retired the twitter.com domain name in a full move to x.com on the web.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
• The tennis power couple, who have both since retired from the sport, went on to wed in 2001 and are now parents of two.
  — Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2023
• In March 2016, Avicii hit a breaking point — and decided to retire from touring to focus on creating music and repairing his health.
  — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
• The next month, Arians retired abruptly, turning the team over to defensive coordinator Todd Bowles.
  — Mike Jones, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025