retentive

How To Use retentive In A Sentence

• Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness. 2008 June : Scrubbles.net
• But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable.
• ‘Progress, far from consisting in change,’ said the Spanish sage, ‘depends on retentiveness.’
• KCNA says: It, with effects of both preventive and curative treatment, helps improve mental and retentive faculties by multiplying brain cells. North Korea Hails New ‘Anti-Ageing Super Drink’ | Impact Lab
• a retentive mind
• Because we, what with our anal-retentive, horn-rimmed parsing of phrases and slicing of sentences, are really semanticists when it boils down to it.
• Thus, if the soil be too wet, it may be drained; if too loose and sandy, it may be rendered more consistent and retentive of water by the addition of clay or loam; it may be enriched by chalk, or any kind of calcareous earth. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
• … now go wipe, your anal retentiveness is showing … Think Progress » Fox News: ‘Al Gore’s Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our Economy?’
• There was also a lot of anal-retentiveness on display. A Conundrum « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
• This, on the other hand, I read because I wanted to see how it came out, not because I spell anal-retentive with the hyphen in. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway