How to Use retention in a Sentence

retention

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  • They say the herb promotes memory retention.
  • The Hawks have one salary retention spot left to use at the deadline now.
    — Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
  • What makes this the best charcoal grill with a smoker is the heat retention.
    — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 July 2023
  • The 22-inch bowl is porcelain-enameled for great heat retention while the grates are cast iron.
    — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This can be a storm drain, retention pond, or simply a safe spot away from your home.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The rock channel brings the water around to the back of the home where there is a stormwater retention pond that was built with rock found on site.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In May of that year, a Myrtle Beach man was killed when he was dragged into a retention pond.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Threads has been surging ahead in signups, but what about retention?
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 18 July 2023
  • In December 2022, the school suffered severe damage due to heavy rains that caused the collapse of the retention wall next to the Iguaná stream.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The Piper crashed into a field, while the Cessna went into a water retention pond.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 17 July 2022
  • There are a lot of reasons for that; a statewide teacher retention task force is looking at ways to ease that problem.
    — Tcrain, al, 16 June 2023
  • The rib knit is also just perfect, with a comfortable touch and feel and a shape retention that lasts, as the style’s name implies, all day.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 23 June 2023
  • The program boasts a strong retention rate for the industry, with more than 40% of RiseHy hires still with the company.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The rice was overcooked in most of the Dutch oven, perhaps due to excessive moisture retention.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The officer swerved to avoid hitting the dog and crashed into a small retention wall, which caused the officer to lose control of the SUV.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Other factors, such as age, fluid retention, and stress, are more likely to cause weight gain than the pill.
    — Laura Dorwart, Health, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The retention of Wang Yi to me is a move towards stability.
    — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But of course, retention of players is a different deal now, too.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Teacher retention also hit a nine-year high this year with 87.6% of teachers returning to the same school year to year.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But that’s a lot of memory retention every day for two months—and then for however long the movie takes.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 8 July 2024
  • In fact, client retention is what builds the foundation for a company’s growth.
    — Nathan Green, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • The top quality stoneware makes sure your cakes and loaves have a uniform browning and cooks evenly, plus the heat retention keeps your baked goods warmer for longer.
    — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • So that would be my number one item, would be recruitment and retention.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The school also touts the second-lowest retention rate in the district - keeping just 54% of its teachers from last year.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Last last year in the U.S. and Canada, Costco's employee retention rate was about 93% for those with the company at least a year.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • But in this case, the employee retention tax credit appears to have few friends left on Capitol Hill.
    — Kevin Freking and Fatima Hussein The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Cooking gets so much easier when your pots and pans have heat retention!
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • Some of this funding will go toward the recruitment and retention of home care workers.
    — Alice Wong, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Trump has asked Musk and Ramaswamy to determine which workers are worthy of retention and which should be fired.
    — Jeffery Vacante, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Length retention can also be achieved when implementing oils to lock in hydration.
    — Celeste Polanco, Essence, 6 Feb. 2025

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