Retain means: Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop. Related words include hold or keep. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Retain in practice.

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Retain in a sentence

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Retain meaning

  1. Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
  2. To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.

Synonyms of Retain

hold keep hold on hold back keep back keep up sustain prolong keep going keep on continue contain carry bear remember

Retain in Dutch

Example sentences (20)

Finedon Dolben will be bidding to retain the T20 Championship this weekend after they won the competition last year.

And that means Sunderland retain the trophy as they were victors the last time the clubs faced each other in 2017-18.

But the footprint of the development will be relatively small in order to retain most of the site as greenfield land.

Earlier this year, he spoke to about the importance of learning and development programmes to engage and retain staff.

Calls for the government to retain some kind of nuclear energy production at have been given a boost by the Chancellor.

Healthy productive roses need a healthy, porous, organically rich soil that drains well and is mulched to retain water.

Fans and people associated with the Bears program have campaigned for Lamb to retain Mike Armour, who coaches tight ends.

Bus drivers have been hard to retain, for example — and they’re a huge necessity in his sprawling district.

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Greenwood has been included on the retain list throughout the past 18 months, following his initial arrest in January 2022.

Applicant Osman Gulum wanted to retain the retail units and have the residential space on the first floor, above the two shops.

Aston Villa retain an interest, but it appears as though Gnonto will become the latest player to leave Elland Road this summer.

Australia had to fight hard in the second ODI, but ultimately held on for victory to retain the Ashes.

Gary McGaghey explains that it can be difficult to source and retain strong talent in private equity.

Gas prices did drop due to a variety of factors, a fact that may have enabled the Democrats to retain control of the U.S. senate.

Also, it can retain moisture very well and has excellent aeration for the roots to grow efficiently.

French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir had earlier called on lawmakers to retain the four-hour limit.

Aging skin often has a reduced capacity to retain moisture, resulting in dryness and an increased likelihood of developing wrinkles.

Objects that derive from the NSObject root class respond to a retain and a release message, and keep a retain count.

Having failed to reconcile and put their house in order, their party failed to retain power.

And those whose farmlands fall into the opposing communities will still retain ownership of the land in return for the payment of royalties.

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These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:

Common combinations with retain

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • to retain 112×
  • retain the 50×
  • and retain 29×
  • retain their 13×
  • retain its 11×
  • will retain 10×
  • retain his 10×
  • retain power
  • would retain
  • or retain

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "retain" in a sentence?
An example: "Finedon Dolben will be bidding to retain the T20 Championship this weekend after they won the competition last year." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "retain" from real English texts.
What does "retain" mean?
Retain means: Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
What are synonyms of "retain"?
Common synonyms of "retain" include: hold, keep, hold on, hold back, keep back, keep up, sustain, prolong. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "retain" in Dutch?
"retain" translates to Dutch as: behouden.
How many example sentences with "retain" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "retain", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

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