retinue
Example Sentences
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They were served by a cosmopolitan retinue: Sri Lankan singers, Arab managers, European chefs and always Afghan workers in a multitude of indispensable roles.
It’s delivering a World Series to a gambling cartel while a retinue of sports reporters cover a completely different — and wholly imaginary — ballgame.
From Salon
She collected some of the most fascinating information on the latter by watching Flo, an older female with a bulbous nose and an amazing retinue of suitors who was bearing children well into her 40s.
From Los Angeles Times
The services of a life-preserving, ego-boosting retinue of intimidating protectors — picture dark glasses, earpiece, stern visage — were cited by more than one Harris associate, past and present, as a factor in her deliberations.
From Los Angeles Times
He pointed out that the monarch had also been behaving erratically in his public life, sacking several senior officials in his retinue.
From BBC
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