retrieve
Example Sentences
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Determined to retrieve it, the hunter followed that trail through dense vegetation until he eventually found the elephant dead.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Seats that I painstakingly secured via a lengthy online chat disappeared by the time I arrived at the airport and I had to fight to retrieve them without paying a fee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Only 18 were flagged because the agent “did not have a sufficient factual basis to believe that the queries were reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
He told reporters the operation to retrieve the wounded officer from “one of the toughest areas in Iran” was possible with a mix of “talent” and “luck.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into the ocean.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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