retrieve

Example Sentences

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John Coale was attending an event at the British Embassy in Washington when the State Department called, with a request: Could he go to Belarus and retrieve a political prisoner with an American passport?

From The Wall Street Journal

On a cabinet sit several framed photos from Ye-won's final days in Bangkok, retrieved from her phone, which was discovered at the crash site.

From Barron's

Anthonin says he was helping some other passengers retrieve their luggage at the back of the sinking ferry when he saw a Lao mother and her two children.

From BBC

This dramatized movie, however, seeks to retrieve something else: a spark of unignorable humanity from a media ecosystem of headlines and statistics that doesn’t always grasp how distancing it can be.

From Los Angeles Times

Vehicle owners are waiting to retrieve their cars after more than 30 firefighters tackled a large blaze in a hospital's multi-storey car park.

From BBC