retentive

How To Use retentive In A Sentence

• Conclusion It's practical to utilize human mandible as the model to measure retentive force of clasps.
• Anything material can be destroyed, but thought is retentive and has accumulated throughout Time.
• He is a scholar who has wide learning and a retentive memory.
• March 2nd, 2009 at 10: 52 pm expansionism footprints froze glove prohibitively sakes stations buy generic cialis alarming evaluates molar pistons retentiveness rigidity scowls Webster. Matthew Yglesias » Why Don’t You Guys Ever Report the Good News?
• In addition, the rain forests are restricted to dolerite-derived red clay soils, which are highly moisture retentive. Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
• But good crops of alfalfa may be grown on subsoils so retentive that underdrainage is necessary to facilitate the escape of an excess of moisture with sufficient quickness. Clovers and How to Grow Them
• To wit: ever since I've been working here on my own devoid of any human contact, I've been turning into a small-minded tight-fisted anal-retentive mentalist.
• A better aphorism from him, which should be pinned to the wall of every management consultant's office, was "progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness". Will policy makers never learn from past mistakes?
• He's not obliged to like her ” some people don't, as he points out ” but it is only fair to let your readers know that she has a thoroughly first-rate mind (not just "jaggedly sharp") and a phenomenal (not merely "retentive") memory. Life with Picasso
• In fact, these wires are not just twisted together in a sensible, civilized manner, they are wound tight enough to make an anal-retentive boy-scout proud, and then they are doubled over and twisted again. Archive 2009-12-01