Example Sentences

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A former lawyer who had retrained as a baker at a trendy cafe in the Black Sea city, he joined the Ukrainian army a year later.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

The company added it had retrained G4S prison staff who would be deployed to the centre.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2021

My mom, who had retrained in computerized accounting, started using her free time to search for his name in prison databases.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2021

An anesthesiologist and internist in her native India, Aya, left, had retrained as a physician assistant when she moved to the United States.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020

He was fond of her, but Chaol didn’t know if he could sleep at night knowing that he had retrained and released the world’s greatest assassin.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas