How to Use retirement home in a Sentence

retirement home

noun
Definition of retirement homenext
  • When a death at the retirement home forces a pause, the friends grieve, pay tribute – and grow.
    — Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The retirement home in Kendall Roy’s Living+ dystopia 37.
    — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The death, at a retirement home, was confirmed by his son, Stephen.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The surviving monks moved to a Salt Lake City retirement home.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Her death, at a retirement home, was confirmed by Max Shapey, her son.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Giving it your all is what salsa lessons at a retirement home is all about.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • His death, in a retirement home, was confirmed by his wife, Linda.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • To top it off, our new retirement home is comfortable but very small.
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
  • His father, who has settled into a retirement home with his wife of 60 years, sent him to the library to read up on copyright law.
    — Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Soon, he is wrapped up in the world of the retirement home, but not before long, the reader is thrown back into Bob's history and life story.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 4 July 2023
  • One is the nurses’ residence, which is now a private retirement home called Park Lane at Sea View.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Among items to consider: What resources do your parents have to pay for a retirement home?
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Two of his neighbors, German and Jeanne Diaz, bought their retirement home overlooking the lake more than two decades ago.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • State of play: Construction started last year to transform the former retirement home at 501 N. Allen Ave.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 26 July 2024
  • But the film is set in the present, and as much as the residents of the retirement home and the occasional random weirdo enjoy tuning in, ratings are tanking.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Sources note that Colman’s character will run a retirement home for bears in Peru.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
  • Her mom Linda, who works in a retirement home, and her father John, a preacher, reside in South Carolina, but the lessons are never far.
    — Tony Paige, New York Daily News, 5 July 2024
  • After a series of owners and a stint as a retirement home, the interior had lost much of its original charm.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In the central Maui town of Kula, about 40 miles away, Carol Ross stood in the incinerated remains of what was supposed to be her retirement home.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Within a few hours, snakes have also been spotted at a school, beneath a piano stored in a private garage and near a lagoon-like swimming pool at a retirement home.
    — Natasha Frost David Maurice Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The desire to grow older in one’s own home — rather than having to move in with family or to a retirement home — is common among many generations.
    — Gregory Schmidt, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Love Stacy hatching a plan to steal her best friend’s man by volunteering at his grandma’s retirement home.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
  • However, the financier has future plans to use the entire property as his retirement home, sources told the newspaper.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In February, an 85-year-old woman was killed by a 10-foot alligator in Fort Pierce while walking near her retirement home.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 12 May 2023
  • Set in 1996, the story follows Ana, a young firefighter responding to an emergency at a retirement home during Rio de Janeiro’s worst storm.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • In one scene, Squibb hijacks an electric scooter and has a vehicular showdown in a retirement home with Ben, played by the late Richard Roundtree in his final screen performance.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In one scene, Squibb hijacks an electric scooter and has a vehicular showdown in a retirement home with Ben, played by the late Richard Roundtree in his final screen performance.
    — Variety, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • According to reports, Acker died March 16 at her retirement home in Toronto.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In the dramedy, the actress was brilliant portraying Irene Smothers, a retirement home resident and one-half of a duo who also have a penchant for murder.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The property also included a retirement home, a hospital, a church and a recreational hall.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024

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