How to Use retinue in a Sentence

retinue

noun
  • What if there had been the normal retinue of staffers on hand?
    — Paul Schwartzman and Peter Jamison, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The Driskill even has its very own retinue of weeping female ghosts.
    — Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The British monarch and her retinue are very good at this, and this is why Britons keep them around.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
  • But the king does not sound all that assured lording it over retinue and family.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Charles and his retinue will be keenly aware of these existential threats to his tenure.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 May 2023
  • Ruth was raised by her father, who never remarried, and by a retinue of servants.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
  • Her all-male retinue of staff members striding briskly beside her were also maskless.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Lutnick quickly noticed White wore no tie and arrived with no retinue.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In just a few weeks, Orion and his retinue will be dominating our winter skies.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The star and its retinue of worlds will enter Earth’s transit zone in about 1,600 years.
    — Tess Joosse, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • Eleanor, who still wanted an annulment (or maybe a widowhood), travelled in her own ship with her own retinue.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Besides, with a healthy toad retinue, your pest problems will be taken care of —naturally.
    — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2017
  • The queen demanded that she and her retinue be accommodated at the castle for the night, which was her right.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • By Viserys slaying the great beast (with most of the heavy lifting done by his royal retinue) the boy's birthright to the throne would be sealed.
    — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2022
  • His was a retinue of fans, not followers, and they could be contented with theatrical gestures.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Nor is Vance the first politician to vacation with an irritating retinue in tow.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That strikes us as a retinue more fitting for the likes of a presidential delegation than a mayor.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Rae employed a retinue of primarily Black writers and directors who gave the show a house style.
    — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In time, the lion and bull became close friends – so much so that the lion stopped hunting, and the animals in his retinue began starving.
    — John Nemec, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Charles’s retinue included his twenty-six-year-old brother, James, the Duke of York.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The bulk of available evidence hints that Drake’s great quest may not be in vain; data indicate most stars harbor a retinue of worlds.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Now footsteps are heard rushing up from the floor below, and Varsha is soon surrounded by her aunt’s retinue of maids and household staff.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Country singer Travis Tritt is removing the King of Beers from his own royal retinue.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
  • By the end of the video, Parks’ retinue includes five people who are also pretty chill about Parks vibing out with headphones on.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
  • Their faces and figures, as molded by Goodman and her retinue of artists, influenced the taste of a generation.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Much to her surprise, instead of traveling with a retinue or even a secretary, the Chancellor was alone.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 June 2023
  • The queen's retinue totaled seven, which included two escorts and a sweet young lady with a bouquet at Tracy's side.
    — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Before Rhaenyra and Criston Cole returned to the royal retinue, they were approached by the animal in the woods.
    — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Stalin and his retinue lodged at the Koreiz Villa, also known as the Yusupov Palace.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Saturn was at its biggest and brightest for the year less than two weeks ago and is still an amazing sight through a small telescope, with its magnificent set of rings and retinue of small moons.
    — National Geographic, 13 June 2016

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