"retain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The city has retained part of its city wall.
- The stone retaining wall and part of the mudbrick structure were reconstructed in the 1960s.
- The Dutch retain part of the collection and since the war's end have been seeking the rest as rightfully theirs.
- One, larger than the others, retained part of a ruined head with a wide hole through it where the nostrils and eyes had been.
- The firm's statement yesterday seemed to indicate that it intended to retain at least part of its stake.
- These railways retain steam for all or part of their motive power.
- In other words, those states add nothing to the estate tax bill, but simply retain part of the amount that otherwise would go to Washington.
- The federal government retained part of the former Naval Facility.
- It retains, however, part of the elements that motivated, in 1993, such a proposed classification.
- "That may be a close second, but it is important to retain part of it as a passive park."
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