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How to use retrieve in a sentence

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I hang up on my wildly ecstatic literary agent rather abruptly and retrieve my morning paper from the coffee table before me.
In a similar reaction, it can also help to retrieve copper from chalcopyrite and covellite.
She would have stooped to retrieve her knives had he not waved his own at her threateningly.
He opened the door to allow one person in, and went back with them to help them retrieve their luggage.
A query is executed in a computer to retrieve data from a database stored on a data storage device.
I position the chains to allow a slight opening, big enough for my hand to slip through and retrieve a small jar of honey.
They were playing catch, and each time either would throw the ball, the other would miss and then have to retrieve it.
He realizes that the orcs were commanded to retrieve the hobbits and return them unharmed.
They prepare to strike without warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver bands.
Employees often have so many passwords that they invariably forget them and have to call the help desk to either retrieve or reset them.
Blair reached up to the overhead to retrieve his pack, and a twinge of remembered pain clutched his chest.
Their job was to check that all explosives had detonated and to retrieve the cameras mounted fore and aft.
This created a panic across central Europe, as investors rushed to the banks to retrieve their own investments before these were frozen too.
Within ten minutes I had to retrieve my tackle, after a load of rubbish dragged the bait out of the swim.
Although not a huge amount of money I got the bank to retrieve it as a point of principle.
I'm seeing a therapist who wants me to undergo hypnosis to retrieve memories that I may have repressed.
Basically, the clipboard is a temporary storage area where you can save and retrieve data.
She bent to retrieve the periwinkle colored ribbon neatly folded on the floor.
After brushing my teeth and combing the knots out of my shoulder length hair I went to the wardrobe to retrieve the uniform I was to wear today.
He then jogged back to the wall to retrieve the ball and lobbed it to the infield as three runs scored.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Go back to them now and retrieve what you have lost, and see that in the future you are worthier.
He was in want of a youth whom he could trust, and who would help him to retrieve his affairs.
Polly asked Davidge to retrieve her husband from the sloe-eyed ambassadress who was hypnotizing him.
I would retrieve my fault, in so far as it was retrievable, and save Brandon, who was worth them all put together.
And with that slender capital he intended that night to retrieve his lost fortune.
Schwann saw that he had made a blunder, and endeavored to retrieve it.
His hat floated off and he grudged the slight effort to retrieve it.
I say, Ginger, let's hoist Swotty Watkins with his own petard until Matron needs a pair of sugar tongs to retrieve them.
Hertford had twice been called in to retrieve Surrey's military blunders.
Nightwatchman Larry tries to retrieve it, only to find the contents of the world's largest museum have been reanimated.
Meanwhile, along the 90-mile coast, emergency workers continue to retrieve bodies on land, stretching back blocks from beaches.
It chances that on the morrow ye may have opportunity to retrieve thy blunder.
Then it was Jerry's duty cautiously to retrieve the arrow had it missed the mark.
Even then it was not too late for Baseek to retrieve the situation.
The original reference library was a nightmare for staff repeatedly climbing cast iron spiral staircases and platforms of shelving to retrieve books.
The answerer can record up to 24 minutes of messages and announcements, and allows customers to retrieve messages remotely from touch-tone or rotary phones.
I have no doubt that his desire to retrieve what he had lost was rendered the more intense by his grief for his young wife, and became like the madness of a gamester.
A click on each thumbnail will retrieve a page that contains a full-sized version of the chart and additional information about the data and findings.
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