How to Use retainer in a Sentence

retainer

noun
  • Imhoff says the retainer and testing are at no cost to them.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Don't be one of them — don a pair of eyewear retainers to keep them attached to you.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Heat need a toe doctor on retainer.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • People have retainers for their lawyers.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 21 May 2026
  • Brokers smooth the process, no questions asked, for a cut of the sale or a monthly retainer.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Gabrielle Union even showed off her retainer in a cute makeup-free selfie.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Jeep then hit a retainer wall and side-swiped a fourth vehicle, the school bus.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Yet Bankman-Fried sounded very much like a man with white shoe firms on retainer.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The boy has since gotten a new retainer, Johnston said.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The retainer was for $50,000 a month.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But, shoppers without a glam team on retainer are impressed, too.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 25 June 2026
  • But, shoppers without a glam team on retainer are impressed, too.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The retainer was for $50,000 a month.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In a more porous era, he might have been kept on lavish retainer by a Medici.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • With most guns, that means removing a retainer from the top of the magazine tube.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
  • My friend wears a retainer and removes it at the dinner table, even in restaurants.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And the retainer was growing too, now up to $5,000.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As time went on – with the team still paying the monthly retainer – the agreement was revised.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2020
  • At one point, Pembroke Pines had at least three outside law firms on retainer.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Many firms already have the necessary talent on staff or on retainer.
    — Carl Gould, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Gold acts more as a retainer of wealth, not a vehicle for serious growth or profits.
    — Aly J Yale, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • It may be covered already by the retainer being paid to the attorney/law firm.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
  • And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • Anna is blonde and tall and gawky, with braces; Maya is shorter, with a bowl cut forced on her by her mother, and a retainer.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Can your client grow via a monthly retainer or by helping their clients to receive a percentage of money earned?
    — Yec, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • So Ovitz wrote Fields a check for $5 so put him on retainer, so he couldn’t be sued by the attorney.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Not to mention that the teeth would probably begin to shift back without getting a retainer.
    — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Tasks that previously required a junior hire or agency retainer now run for cents at scale.
    — Manick Bhan, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The village will pay Byron’s law firm a retainer of $4,043 per month.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Negodiuk has also taken on some smaller clients, who pay retainers of about $500 a month.
    — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026

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