retired

Definition:
1. No longer active in your work or profession.
2. Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title 'emeritus' as in 'professor emeritus'; 'retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive.
3. Not allowed to continue to bat or run.
4. (of a ship) withdrawn from active service.
5. Discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension.

Use 'retired' in a sentence:

• 1. She retired a few months ago.
• 2. Meir Dagan, the retired Mossad chief, talks about an Israeli strike on Iran as the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
• 3. Eastwood plays retired gunfighter Will Munny.
• 4. "Since I retired to this place," he wrote near the end of his life, "I have never been out of these mountains."
• 5. He retired in 1970, on his fiftieth birthday.
• 6. She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired.
• 7. Simon, how does it feel to be retired?
• 8. Retired Coadjutor Bishop Peter Zhang Zhiyong, 80, who is not recognized by the government, was also present in the election.
• 9. He was 52 and had retired to Stratford three years before.
• 10. He retired in his fifties.
• 11. He retired twelve batters in a row.
• 12. He had buried his wife some two years before he retired.
• 13. My father had just retired.
• 14. I've persuaded Mrs. Tennant that it's time she retired.
• 15. He was voted horse of the year and then was retired to stud.
• 16. The regimental HQ is a tiny office manned by two retired officers.
• 17. The wisdom of the retired generals and anti-war protesters conjoins.
• 18. When he retired, he tried to distance himself from politics.
• 19. Not having to get up early is just one of the perks of being retired.
• 20. He retired early on grounds of ill health.
• 21. By the age of 25 she was completely burned out and retired from the sport.
• 22. At 71, he has now retired from the political fray.
• 23. I thought she had retired, but apparently she hasn't.
• 24. They retired and went to live upstate.
• 25. She retired last year but still teaches the odd class to keep her hand in.
• 26. When the chairman of Campbell's retired, McGovern was named as his successor.
• 27. I'd put them both down as retired teachers.
• 28. He retired hurt in the first five minutes of the game.
• 29. She retired early on account of ill health.
• 30. I retired late that evening.
• 31. How do you fill your day now that you've retired?
• 32. He retired long before the war.
• 33. Dad is retired now.
• 34. The jury retired to consider the evidence.
• 35. She was retired on medical grounds.
• 36. Since she retired she's kept herself very busy.