How to Use retrench in a Sentence

retrench

verb

• When the economy slowed, the company was forced to retrench.
• Maybe a secondary goal is to get Mr. Manchin to retrench behind the scenes.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• But Wayfair is by far the biggest area tech firm to retrench.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• The next day the fire will grow to 1,500 acres and the smokejumpers are forced to retrench, moving from offense to defense.
  — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• None of this is evidence that the United States ought to retrench.
  — Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2017
• But in the decade since, Mr. Murakami, 55, has retrenched.
  — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• The tech sector goes on a hiring spree and then has to retrench with thousands of layoffs.
  — Suzanne Bates, Quartz, 2 May 2023
• The company had to retrench after the city ordered all scooters off the road.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 28 June 2018
• Or whether Arctic sea ice will retrench by a certain amount.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2021
• At the time, the car industry was in the process of retrenching after the economic meltdown of 2008.
  — Joshua Davis, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2010
• The rub, says Hanke, is that the Fed is still proceeding with its money-squeezing QT, at a rate of $95 billion a month, while the banks retrench.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• Cowen justified the move as a way to cut losses and retrench in a smaller city with different needs.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 9 May 2018
• But as cash flow and profits have evaporated, GE has been forced to retrench.
  — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
• Last year, the microblogging platform retrenched 90% of its staff in the country, leaving only a dozen on the payroll.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2023
• By now, Blake and Robitaille have had time to retrench and replenish the talent pool and produce results.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Usually, the best move is to retreat and retrench, to find ways to reduce scope without going too small.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 3 May 2018
• It’s a process called abscission, Tauscher said, where the trees retrench those chemicals and release the leaf.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2021
• Then, an otherwise tight job market would start to crack and consumers would retrench.
  — Enda Curran, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
• And with Ukrainian troops focusing on Lyman, Russian units have had time to retrench farther to the east.
  — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• And just as some employers have started to retrench, more people are looking for jobs.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Surging infections caused by the Delta variant has caused some investors to retrench.
  — Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Does a sluggish but inconclusive .500 season cause the team to retrench?
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
• In the past decade Europe’s banks have retrenched to their home markets and its firms have shifted their energies to expanding outside the EU.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• Even Selfridges has been forced to retrench, announcing 450 job cuts last month.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 18 Aug. 2020
• The spurt in infections across the globe means health officials will have little time to retrench and cope with what could be a taxing winter for health-care systems around the world.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 11 Oct. 2020
• Without the wealthy island colony to fund his grand plans on the American continent, Napoleon retrenched to Europe to face off with England.
  — Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2020
• But the decision to retrench marks a setback for Cisco, which has been trying to boost sales of software services over hardware.
  — Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• Public and political outrage over such price hikes, which are par for the course in the industry, may on occasion nudge firms to retrench for fear of a PR headache.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 11 July 2018
• Although Disney has also received positive reactions, the blowback — and poor ticket sales for some of the films in question — has prompted Disney to retrench.
  — Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• That’s in part because no president this century has shown more commitment to the project of retrenching from America’s commitments overseas.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024