How To Use Retired In A Sentence

Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?
Ronald Martin retired from the United States Air Force Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. Mastin, Ronald L.
Amid fireworks, a color guard and torrents of cheers, 62 former Redskins were introduced on Sunday night at FedEx Field, from Carl Kammerer, who played in 1963, to Darnerien McCants, who retired in 2004. Shanahan, McNabb are helping the Redskins recapture their past
And even those who'd retired in the fullness of time were no longer secure from retrospective investigation and changed pensionable status. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Here retired US diplomat Ellsworth Bunker drew up a plan to transfer the administrative authority for West Papua from the Netherlands to a neutral administrator, and thence to Indonesia.

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Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement.
He also introduced the concept of a stipendiary chairmanship, at one stroke freeing the council from its reliance on semi-retired highflyers from the business community.
After he retired in the 1980s, he became increasingly reclusive. Times, Sunday Times
He has now retired and repaid the money. The Sun
Paraneck Stable's former classic starter Griffinite has been retired due to a slight ligament strain in his left front leg.
The play starred a well-known retired actress who was intent on a come-back.
Filling in for the injured Rick Reed, Santana (4-1) retired 14 straight batters from the first to the fifth innings. USATODAY.com
Older manufacturing companies are burdened with tremendous health care costs for retired employees.
One is Peter Butler Sr., a retired insurance executive now living in Pebble Beach, Calif., who is an advocate for Eddie Lowery, the 10-year-old boy who famously caddied for the victorious Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame?
After he retired from football he became a sports journalist for the Gazette.
I was delighted to play alongside him for one last time; I wanted to play with my old mucker before he retired and went home to Iceland.
I have had three literary agents over the decades, but that was because one retired ill and one died suddenly. Times, Sunday Times
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and dozens of others on the long-running sketch series, tells GossipCop. com that “retired from the show last year.” “SNL” Conan/Leno Parody, Featuring Larry King & David Letterman [VIDEO]
'Aren't you supposed to be retired?' 'Yes, in theory.'
Shortly before he retired from the waterfront, Hoffer became an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Finlay Martin is a retired farmer in Ardlethan, a very small town north-west of Wagga in New South Wales.
We retired to promises of clear skies the next day, in spite of the weighty cloud cover. Times, Sunday Times
It's not for nothing that Cimarusti married Christina Echiverri, a retired pastry chef now raising their new baby girl.
So saying, he dismissed Roland Graeme, through a different door from that by which he had entered, signed a cross, and pronounced a benedicite as they parted, and then, still muttering to himself, retired into the garden, and locked the door on the inside. The Abbot
Dealing with my Father MSgt Leslie Cooper USAF Retired who died a paralyzing horrible death from cancer exposure to working on Titan II ICBMS and having daily contact with Veterans and Veterans with Service Connected disabilities, they are considered noncombat and face more dangers of dying an early age than those in combat and they are the Cold War Veterans. 911 VETERANS AND SURVIVING SPOUSES NEED HELP!
We are here to make sure their address is correct so that they can get counted in the census when it comes out next year, "said Tom Boone, a retired firefighter who is working as a" lister "in the central part of Billings. Billingsgazette.com
Both Conductors were interesting people, retired and loved railroading.
Mr Lang, a retired veterinary surgeon, says he can still remember the thrill of seeing the lady's slipper in Yorkshire, long before it had to be heavily guarded.
Alan Kolaczkowski, a retired nuclear engineer, consulted with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on specific probabilities of accidents at nuclear plants.
A retired FBI agent was one of the authors' best sources of information.
Although the idea of expiation was not excluded (Lev., i, 4), it retired somewhat into the background, since in the complete destruction of the victim by fire the absolute submission of man to God was to find expression. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Unfortunately, as a child, I was not given the opportunity to learn and as I have recently retired and have a little spare time on my hands, I thought it time to stop wittering on about it and bite the bullet.
The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
busywork" program for unemployed, retired politicians to pick up an extra check at the expense of us, the U.S. taxpayers. Bakersfield.com Latest news
He retired as supreme commander of the German armed forces in 1911, but re-entered the army in 1914.
When he retired from the sea in 1870 he returned to Bequia and set up whaling ‘companies ‘consisting of four whaleboats and about 26 men per company.’
It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster. The Three Clerks
The survey team carried out over 200 interviews with retired people.
If pollies and retired pollies want to access unlimited airport lounge grog, they can pay for it like anyone else.
At a time when most vintage warplanes have retired to a quiet life on display in drafty museums, 65-year-old Fifi is embarking on a new mission: giving rides to paying enthusiasts and once again making the air-show rounds, which occasionally feature a simulated atomic-bomb attack. Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It Doesn
It is unlikely that private capital will finance such a tremendous undertaking until the risks are retired and the scalability challenge can be addressed.
He retired to England, a fabulously wealthy man. Times, Sunday Times
They say youth is wasted on the young and experience on the retired.
She retired early on account of ill health.
My uncle Paul was a master brassfounder; but when he retired he set up a most successful ballroom dancing academy. Its A Grand Old Name
He'd come all the way on a poor nag who should have been retired to the pastures a long time ago.
A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50-75 years took part in the study.
Mr. Astor had held the wheel for five hours and, at my suggestion, he retired to the comfortable little cabin and lay down for fifteen minutes, leaving the aeroboat to soar in great slow circles under its admirable automatic controls over the main battle area. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
Hanophy retired a few months ago; telephone calls for this article made to home numbers listed in his name weren't answered. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Becker is playing only selected events as he winds up his career and has retired from Grand Slam tournament play.
When he retired from his work as an Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner, he decided to emulate English Botanist and Diatomist Dr. C. L. Odam and collect diatoms from tributaries.
Granma (which, now that I've said it a few times, is a really bad name for any magazine except the house organ of the American Association of Retired People) had "compelling" "evidence" of the U.S. attack, claiming that if the parasite, which is known as varroa, had infiltrated the island naturally, it would've spread from east to west. American Beat: Bad Bee-Havior?
The Association, whose anniversary we celebrate to-night, was founded seven years ago, for the purpose of granting permanent pensions to such of the corps dramatique as had retired from the stage, either from a decline in their years or a decay of their powers. Speeches: Literary and Social
That creepy old retired nun with the rheumy face of a Martian had locked him in a closet in the basement.
In the olden days you retired because you were simply too old and feeble to carry the coal to the surface any more. Times, Sunday Times
As Nigel just said, Jerry retired from the telethon this year, but of course, he's here with us in spirit and in heart, and we will continue to be energized and inspired by what I like to call his towering example," Carl said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade.
Honourability and integrity might well have been his middle names, and when he retired and put the uniform away he did so with a record of service behind him that anyone would be proud and indeed privileged to have.
But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
(My father, a retired general practitioner, can still tell as much from palpating a patient's abdomen or listening carefully for crepitus while articulating a patient's sore knee than most modern internists can from reading an MRI or CT scan.) The Cost of Health Care -- in Live Chickens
No. 12 Marat Safin outlasted Andrew Ilie, who trailed 5-0 in the fifth set when he retired because of cramping. Agassi, Kournikova out in second round
It was the 20th career complete game for Ponson, who retired 20 of 21 batters from the first inning to the eighth. USATODAY.com
The mistake is to believe that recently retired sportsmen or women, fast-tracked into the studio, are alone best placed to commentate on and analyse their sport of expertise.
• Accounting "supremo" John Hagen, recently retired as chairman at Big Four firm Deloitte, has been made a life member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
Still, being retired means he's got time to lay about being stiff, whereas I am a thrusting executive professional who can't afford to be in less than 100% shape.
Years later, he retired respectably as a cashier.
There he could be as quiet and retired as in the attic of his Uncle Robert Manning's house in Salem.
But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation
Bryan, a retired mechanic and former car service manager, has not looked back since this introduction.
But with ISI's hand or at least that of its "alumnus" in the form of retired officers being seen, the analysis is that the army may be deeply involved in the plot. Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
He called for a ball from the umpire and stepped on second base, claiming to have retired Merkle on a force-out. No Uncertain Terms
At half-past seven the onlookers had retired to safe positions five or six hundred yards away.
Other retired chaplains seem unwilling to suggest that chaplains should walk out on the troops if the ban is repealed. Christianity Today
Brian retired from the sea a number of years ago and bought a local public house, needless to say this was frequented by many local and visiting fishermen who always received a very warm welcome.
And before any townie asks-the cows were mooing loudly coz the cowman was also watching the Cup final and was late for milking so the cows dangly bits were overfull on September 12, 2008 at 12: 14 pm | Reply MOP452 to Retired Sgt @ 23 IPCC: Mother’s Account Of Shooting Is Inaccurate « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
I have the same sort of vision of the early 'English' in Britain as you, a mixture of people speaking various sorts of Germanic, who had settled at various times spanning a couple of centuries at least and for various reasons, including retired Roman soldiers, traders, federates, independents etc. Lord of Silver, by Alan Fisk. Book review
Close retired from county cricket at the end of the following season, and moved back to Yorkshire. Times, Sunday Times
The teacher retired at the completion of the school year.
The retired worker usually waters his garden every day except on rainy days.
I put him down as a retired naval officer.
The stinkiest compound in feces skatole has been isolated and weaponized by a retired Navy commander. Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Godolphin Racing retired Shamardal on the eve of his scheduled start in the Eclipse Stakes on July 2 at Sandown due to a fetlock injury.
He's a Cossack, who rose to command a hussar regiment in the army, won the Tsar's special favour, and retired here, away from his own tribal land. The Sky Writer
The company, which finds more customers among retired military than it does among granola crunching "greens," is growing like topsy and each system installed reduces a household's carbon emissions by fifty percent. John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio: Nothing and Everything -- What Consumers Expect from the New Normal
After the first one almost destroyed an Orbiter in orbit due to improper wiring that was never detected, and after NASA figured out that it was actually 10% more expensive than IUS it was retired with little fanfare. COTS Pick: A Sea Change? - NASA Watch
He retired from the police in 2013 and become a criminology lecturer at a university where he befriended the vulnerable woman. The Sun
And without further parley, followed by his soldiers, he retired into the casemate, leaving Captain Servadac gnawing his mustache with mingled rage and mortification. Off on a Comet
The association works to promote the status of retired people as useful members of the community.
These apply to retired members and those still accruing benefits. Times, Sunday Times
The retired RAF wing commander, who flew Little Nellie in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, set the world speed record in 2002 when his autogiro reached 129.1 mph.
Even got knighted for his efforts, retired to the English countryside. OFF THE CHART
He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
Defence lobbyists such as the Conference of Defence Associations -- largely composed of reserve and retired officers -- were dismissed as special-interest grumblers or as corporatist interests unweaned from the public udder. National Defence: A Little Common Sense
The couple decided to cancel life insurance when they retired. Times, Sunday Times
George McSwain retired from the United States Navy as a Lt Commander. McSwain, George P. Jr.
People seem to think that just because I'm retired, I'm past it.
I'm about played-out, Jack - it's time I retired.
The retired office clerk was told it was for security reasons. The Sun
Two retired generals today blasted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for what they call incompetence and bad leadership. CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006
The egoism of retired presidents to keep the parties that they founded or co-founded immortal will play a significant role.
Mrs Taylor said her husband, a retired electrical contractor, had one drink and then ordered another but did not finish it.
Jim (Ranger) is a retired Army Special Forces officer and terrorism counteraction (T/CA) subject matter expert who vehemently opposes this administration's WOT. I'm guessing Jim is talking about the previous administration's WOT, but you never know. Blogroll Update
Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
If an officer of the Reserve Corps who has been retired pursuant to these regulations and whose retired pay has been terminated on account of his recovery shall again become totally disabled and if his relapse is not due to any new intervening cause, he shall again become entitled to retired pay. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9897
He retired long before the war.
Following the event the school students retired to the community centre where they feasted on sweets, chocolates and biscuits.
a retired FedEx pilot, said MD-11s were so notoriously "squirrely" to land that pilots routinely spent extra time in flight simulators practicing how to control the plane. FedEx Jet Has Control Issues
Of the 10 starters, four were eliminated or retired.
Being retired means that I can get kind of disconnected from the calendar. 12/19/07: Zero to sixty
Andre, a retired millwright, said they'll bank the latest winnings until they decide what to do with the cash.
Although retired, Selwyn Hopkins was a regular beaver where gardening was concerned.
The survey was based on a postal questionnaire sent to a representative sample of 2,000 members of staff and 200 retired staff.
She took home the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 1998 Goodwill Games in what was to be her last competition; she retired soon thereafter
Within weeks hundreds of people, from retired scientists to students, had submitted well-reasoned entries. Times, Sunday Times
He made a pile selling computers and retired by the time he was forty.
Brian retired after 25 years of service to the company.
Last year the retired general pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information by sharing official log books with his biographer, who was also his mistress. Times, Sunday Times
She retired from politics in 1989 with 28 honorary doctorates and two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Robertshaw, a retired farmer, said he would continue to allow the shooting rights and the footpath could be closed on those three to four occasions a year when the shoot was held.
With Rita gone, the semi-retired Long Island businessman satiates his life-long wanderlust by working part-time in a travel agency.
I've persuaded Mrs Tennant that it's time she retired.
The firm employs the retired professor as an adviser.
After he retired from the tailoring business in 1989 he opened the Casa Belmondo restaurant in Royton.
He says he's a retired school administrator.
Many retired British people are now resident in Spain.
But the retired factory worker used a treadmill and lifted weights. The Sun
At 62, retired and living in Toronto, he should have been in his golden years after a successful career as an advertising copywriter.
The book is dedicated to Kostova's father, a recently retired professor of urban planning, who first told her some of the stories she relates.
He acted as a locum when he retired and was a member of the local Probus Club, as well as being interested in cookery, wine, and history.
He has retired from promoting, but remains a regular gig-goer. Times, Sunday Times
We get guys from north Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and as far away as Detroit through here," said Virgil Allen, who oversees "Mr. Charlie," a retired drilling rig in Morgan City where companies train new workers for offshore work. KESQ.com - Local News
Their amphib capability is now almost no existant. as they have not replaced retired vessels …. Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
The jury retired to consider its verdict in the trial of Harold Shipman, the family doctor accused of killing 15 patients.
`He retired, undefeated, when he joined the SB, the Security Service, at the age of nineteen. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
The Prince, by a muscular effort, retired some four or five inches and commenced to rebutton his waistcoat. Tommy and Co.
Those senators who appose him should be fired or retired or both. Congresswoman says some senators 'Neanderthals'
Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
He retired after almost eight years in the sport.
The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
The one, Juliana, the only daughter of a retired sea-captain, he described as a winsome lassie. Novel Notes
In the olden days you retired because you were simply too old and feeble to carry the coal to the surface any more. Times, Sunday Times
$8.95 at the P.X. in Hanau Gemany in 1972, after that I bought 1 a year untill I retired even though the price went up last one was $42.50, by then I had 25, still have all of them and I have been retired 20 years, the first ones still look new and still FIT. Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
Moser said the elder Carman was a retired union official.
He races greyhounds in Ireland and also funds a home for retired greyhounds. Times, Sunday Times
There was no apparent deviation in the ordinary progress of the pustule to a state of maturity from what we see in general; yet there was a total suspension of the areola or florid discolouration around it, until the scarlatina had retired from the constitution. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
With my left ear painlessly buzzing in its temporary deafness and the roof of my mouth lightly seared and tasting like steak, I retired for the evening.
It is scheduled for launch on Feb. 24, one of the final flights in the shuttle program before the fleet is retired this year.
The association works to promote the status of retired people as useful members of the community.
I'm really sure I've seen this business before… someone who put together a consortium of retired handymen / DIYers, and they even had a price on their site for each individual piece of Ikea furniture.
There is a long and mixed history of retired doctors taking up pens and scribbling as their hair goes grey. The Times Literary Supplement
The home side held their own with one of the league favourites as both teams retired two goals apiece at the break.
This affair being settled to his satisfaction, and the night at odds with morning, he took an opportunity of imparting to the ear of this aged dulcinea a kind whisper, importing a promise of visiting her when his sister should be retired to her own chamber, and an earnest desire of leaving her door unlocked. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Kasab says that he and nine other Pakistanis were trained by the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and a number of retired Pakistani military men.
On the ship on which I crossed there were seamen who had been torpedoed three times In its submarine warfare the enemy has broken every international and human law -- has used "frightfulness" to its fullest extent, and the answer of our merchant seamen is to go to sea again as soon as the ship is ready, and the older men, who had retired, return to sea. Women and War Work
Emperor Saga retired from the throne in 823 at the age of thirty-eight, the same year he awarded Kukai the headship of the monastery Toji for use as a Shingon training center in the Heian capital.
He's a strapping, robust he-man living a life of seclusion with other retired adventurers in Kenya, who handily dispatches a group of assassins.
At 71, he has now retired from the political fray.
The senior partner has retired.
The fee is ￡10 or ￡6 for full-time students, the retired or benefit claimants.
After his victory Marcello retired to his terrace with a towel. Sweat poured from his head and chest.
We also met a retired mum of two in her sixties who says she also suffers an adverse reaction to the pesticides. The Sun
Meanwhile, retired dairy farmer Ted Dibble has vowed to borrow a horse and return to the sport if the Government's anti-hunting proposal becomes law.
He retired after only a single appointed term, issuing a public blast against his own party and virtually inviting the opposition to take over his seat.
Although she retired from politics five years ago, she still trots around the globe, giving speeches and meeting world leaders.
The trial continued the next day and the jury retired to consider their verdict.
Having retired from the stage, she devotes some time to masterclasses.
I enjoy voluntary work with hundreds of other retired people who would be unable to do so without the concessionary bus fare.
Though officially retired, she remains the creative force behind the design business.
When the manager retired, there was a scramble for his job.
The director was retired after the scandal
The obesity epidemic is threatening national security, so schools — which are on the front lines in battling the problem — need to boot out junk food and serve healthier snacks and meals, a group of retired military leaders is announcing today. Facing unfit recruits, military leaders target food in schools
Edwin reluctantly retired from work in 1889 aged 84.
Like Stolypin, Goremykin was an old man, long past the age at which he should have been comfortably retired. Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners
Carol, a retired telephonist, goes to the salon every week for a shampoo and blow-dry, three times a year for a perm, and for a cut when Sam says she needs one.
I normally fed and watered my cats by 11 pm or so local time before I retired at night, in fact.
That evening, after our major discovery and our major story telling, we retired fairly early.
But I am a retired engineer so I know what I am talking about.
Your father could have retired to Miami, passed his remaining days in Little Havana arm wrestling, sipping curaçao and chatting with exiled Cubans in their pork pie hats and Hawaiian shirts.
She played the Canada tournament then retired, going out in a blaze of glory .
He retired to his estate in Norfolk, and lived the life of a country gentleman.
When Hanmer retired from his duties, the club made him an honorary member, and he lunches there weekly.
Technically, the old lunatic hadn't retired, he was just on stress leave.
He retired at Christmas, 1990, as parish priest of St Ignatius, Ossett, suffering from a chronic chest complaint.
He had married his wife from his sister sorority and was a retired government worker, she a retired professor at Georgetown University.
More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act. The total balance owed is $2,799,950,165. Archive 2007-01-14
She was a faithful attender at branch meetings till she retired.
David J. Hanson, a retired professor from nearby Syracuse University, has studied youth drinking and likes Montreal's laissez-faire policies.
During a bad-tempered exchange, Mr Lawlor said the retired developer had named several ministers as having been at the meeting as part of his ‘wild, wicked allegations.’
One of the adults turns out to be a kindly retired policeman, a little doddy, who knows that something nefarious is afoot but no one else believes him. UncleBear
After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice.
The Maoists 'move came a fortnight after they served an ultimatum to General Katawal, seeking his clarification on recruitments by military, its "hastiness" in reinstating eight generals retired by the government and its decision not to participate in the National Games. IBN Top Headlines
Peter Bibby has retired as deputy director of social services in Brent.
The University of Mississippi football team has a new mascot after the controversial goateed Southern planter mascot, dating from 1979, was retired by school officials six years ago. Black bear replaces Colonel Reb
It was very sad that after spending all those years grafting , he died so soon after he retired.
She was retired on medical grounds.
The retired office clerk was told it was for security reasons. The Sun
In 1959 she formally retired from Wheaton College and the following year the College honoured her with the award of an honorary Doctorate of Science.
Lamb (who drank only water) retired almost with the dinner itself, nothing remained for men of our principles, the rigor of which we had illustrated by taking rather too much of old port before the cloth was drawn, except talking; amoebaean colloquy, or, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, a dialogue of "brisk reciprocation. Biographical Essays
I put him down as a retired naval officer.

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