"retain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Her appearance is much the same: a faded ingenue retaining remnants of baby fat; a pouty post-teen-ager, more presentable than devastatingly sexual.
- Its bark is colored pale grey or grey-green and is smooth, but sometimes retains remnants of leaf scars.
- Even when DNA is absent, ancient remains may retain remnants of other tissue of value to science.
- But even the best-known, such as Albufeira, retain remnants of their fishing-village past.
- Paradoxically, Boston has retained far fewer remnants of Olmsted's original designs than New York.
- Remarkably, the sculpture retains remnants of its original red-and-yellow paintwork.
- He said the area, which retains remnants of its industrial past, is "one of the most interesting in the city, like SoHo was in 1990."
- Poking about in basement cavities, the restoration team found small slivers of the original shingle, retaining remnants of color.
- The islands, which retain remnants of forested riparian zones, are used by at least 50 species of birds including ospreys, eagles, herons.
- Some argue that Iranian Georgians retain remnants of Christian traditions, but there is no evidence for this.
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