Example Sentences

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By the time particles start zinging around any such machine, many of these scientists will have retired.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2019

He will have retired whenever football’s showcase tournament next visits these shores.

From Washington Times • Jul. 5, 2014

By the time it becomes clear whether the coalition’s reforms have delivered decent retirement incomes at a reasonable cost, the current crop of politicians will have retired.

From Economist • Jun. 5, 2014

“Actually it won't be me, because I will have retired by then.”

From Nature • Apr. 24, 2013

"He will be asleep; the servants will have retired."

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter