How to Use retiree in a Sentence

retiree

noun
Definition of retireenext
Synonyms for retireenext
  • There's a lot for retirees to do there, a lot of ways to keep busy.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the kind of time retirees have, not me, a working mom with a three-year-old.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • So in 2018, the retirees sold their Crystal Lake house and hit the road as full-time RVers.
    — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Wine Glass $15 at Amazon Raise a glass to the retiree with the help of this punny glass.
    — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2023
  • Bernal, a 62-year-old Modesto retiree, loved every moment of it.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Florida's status as one of the top states for retirees is well-earned.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The first distribution went to retirees born between the 1st and 10th of a month, and it was released on the second Wednesday of the month.
    — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But sadly, this group is quite small – just 11 percent of retirees have any DB plan at all.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Some retirees are bracing to be billed tens of thousands of dollars.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • Defectors say the army has called up retirees, who are fighting in the trenches.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But once the final school bell rings this year, Callahan will become a full-time retiree.
    — Jenna Schnuer, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
  • Ford employees or retirees can give up to four PINs per year.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2023
  • That quest gives purpose to a life the retiree otherwise regards as spent.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Treat your favorite retiree right with a golf bag that meets their needs, such as this one from Titleist, a top pick from the experts.
    — Erica Finamore, wsj.com, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Part-time work can also give your days more structure, which many retirees miss.
    — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
  • This led to a massive flocking to Florida—and not even just by retirees.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This tax season is the first that retirees will be able to consider using the new Michigan tax law.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Williams said that White, the New York retiree, had acknowledged the company’s fee in a recorded call.
    — Hanna Kozlowska, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • One is to increase revenue so that the fund has more money and can pay for the increasing number of retirees.
    — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • If that's not fixed, benefits for all retirees will decline by more than 20%.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Beshear said that state retirees have not received a cost-of-living adjustment since the 2012 fiscal year.
    — Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The retiree requires the electronic devices to run a fine arts business from his home, Flowers said.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Moving to places like Baldwin County, Ala., these retirees found that housing prices went up in the state by a whopping 73.5% during the last five years.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • For Tony Chen, a retiree who voted in Taipei in the hour before the polls closed, the election boiled down to a choice between communism and democracy.
    — Christopher Bodeen and Simina Mistreanu, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2024
  • But there are many retirees who are passionate about cycling in any form, electric or old-school.
    — Erin Gifford, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2024
  • On a rainy night last month, down an alleyway in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, in a restaurant basement, sat about two dozen retirees.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • The buyers were a mix of young families and retirees, but mostly from other provinces.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The healthiest plans, in contrast, had 1.4 retirees per worker.
    — Dan Doonan, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That means a shrinking labor force, which means fewer hands and minds to produce, pay taxes and support the bulging numbers of retirees.
    — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • So the now retirees did what many other empty nesters have done and transformed their son’s room into a room for their grandchildren, ages 4 months to 16 years.
    — By Cammy Clark, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

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