Retinue

//ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː//

"Retinue" in a Sentence (9 examples)

The queen began to fear that an assassin was among her retinue, leading her to expel them one-by-one until there was nobody left to protect her.

They're less a political party and more one conman and his retinue of suckers.

The 3 corporations have each hired a retinue of lawyers, and seek to enjoin the state from regulating their industry.

He grew up in the retinue of the king.

Such captain, such retinue.

the queen’s retinues

And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.

12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”

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