"retain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At stake is the course for the state's university system, which retains vestiges of official segregation.
- Vestabule may have retained significant vestiges of his human mind, but he was impervious to insult.
- It still survives, and has retained vestiges of its water wheels, but is no longer worked as a mill, having become a restaurant.
- The station still retains vestiges of the glorious past in form of its long platform and old buildings.
- Did they retain vestiges of their original artificial personality?
- Hallie, who still retained vestiges of her former life as a teacher, was interested in Dove's mind and helped him to continue to learn to read.
- To this day they retain vestiges of Jain traditions.
- The board argues that many minority students are receiving an inferior education because the school system retains "vestiges of segregation."
- Tottenville, at the southern end of the island, retains rural vestiges.
- The small center still retains vestiges of its heritage as a fishing village, but modern hotels and apartments have been built on the outskirts.
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