Synonyms

1. past
2. preceding

Sentence Examples

1. Marcus saw nothing of it, retiring with his new wife to their private rooms as soon as possible.
2. Retiring to our respective beds, we lay groaning in bloated pain until I slipped into a nightmare-riddled food coma.
3. Sancho Panza alone was fuming at the lateness of the hour for retiring to rest and he of all was the one that made himself most comfortable, as he stretched himself on the trappings of his ass, which, as will be told farther on, cost him so dear.
4. The poor girl became nervous and quiet before retiring earlier than Mrs.
5. Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a community of interests in science kept us so.
6. About a year ago, I talked of retiring to a convent.
7. She called while I was putting on my face and wanted to know if your father had changed his mind about retiring.
8. On the fourteenth this had greatly diminished on the fifteenth a still more remarkable decrease was observable and, on retiring on the night of the sixteenth, I had noticed an angle of no more than about seven degrees and fifteen minutes.
9. He spent all day in the store, took short breaks for his meals, and then did the accounts or read for a few hours before retiring.
10. The deepest sounds of the retiring and invisible column had ceased to be borne on the breeze to the listeners, and the latest straggler had already disappeared in pursuit but there still remained the signs of another departure, before a log cabin of unusual size and accommodations, in front of which those sentinels paced their rounds, who were known to guard the person of the English general.