How to Use semiretirement in a Sentence

semiretirement

noun

• The truth is, Lennon did not send out a news release announcing his semiretirement.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• Xie, 71, was pulled out of semiretirement this year to resume the role of China’s climate envoy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Metro was forced to bring some older buses out of semiretirement to keep routes going in the interim.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• Or new powers set to be granted to an obscure body called the State Council could give Putin, who is now 67, a venue to fill a father-of-the-nation role in semiretirement.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• But the public health crisis that recently brought him out of semiretirement, at age 74, may be his most challenging yet.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2020
• Judge Robert King of West Virginia rescinded his decision to take senior status (a form of semiretirement that creates a vacancy on the bench).
  — Laurie Lin and David Lat, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
• Starting at age 65, a judge may retire at his or her current salary or take senior status (a form of semiretirement) after 15 years of active service, according to uscourts.gov.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2020
• That explains how Draghi, 74 — pulled in from semiretirement to become prime minister — now finds himself again on the world stage, hosting a Group of 20 summit where the issues in play are at least as complicated as anything from his past.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Radiators went into semiretirement almost a decade ago.
  — NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• Emil Jannings is the hotel doorman whose life is ruined when he is shunted to semiretirement as a lavatory attendant and his beautiful uniform is taken away from him.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
• Church leaders said during the faith’s fall General Conference that Gay had been granted emeritus status, similar to semiretirement from the role’s day-to-day duties.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
• But that semiretirement coincides with his party’s—and perhaps the planet’s—last chance to reverse a cataclysmic trajectory toward climate devastation.
  — Kara Voght, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
• By 2006, however, Mr. Redstone appeared to have retreated into semiretirement.
  — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2020

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