retainers

Example Sentences

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Having been absent for 20 years, he fears—and rightly—that he will be unrecognizable to family, retainers, and countrymen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

I updated her about retainers secured, projects completed, invoices sent out.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

Here is a look at where the Roys and their retainers are onstage now.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024

The deals include "enhanced family provision entitlement, a bonus structure that rewards success against higher-ranked opposition, increases to the value of retainers and the equalisation of match fees with England men".

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2023

With him had come a long tail of retainers: knights, squires, lesser lords and ladies, heralds, musicians, even a juggler, all aglitter with banners and surcoats in what seemed half a hundred colors.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin