Examples of retreat

• Fire fighters had to retreat from the fierce heat.

• On seeing us, the deer stood stock-still for a moment, then turned and retreated into the forest.

• The army was forced to retreat.

• I saw her coming and retreated.

• They retreated to the relative safety of the forest.

• We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar.

• The battle ended in an ignominious retreat from the front line.

• The luxury resort is used as a retreat by the rich and famous.

• The book discusses 10 famous military retreats.

• Thousands of soldiers died during the retreat.

• Global warming sparks scramble for black gold under retreating ice.

• Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision.

• Their mood changed only after the governor - wi retreated into his palace.

• However, after contact with the mucus, the ants retreated and exhibited antennal cleaning, especially when contact with the nectary took place soon after mucus treatment.

• They can automate their response, as with a doomsday machine, or change their environment, as when troops burn their bridges to make retreats impossible.

• Prospective proponents of universal worker protection policy retreated, conceding business prerogatives in the labor market.

• In exploration, he advances, fixating the stimulus, just as he does if, after retreating, he regains courage and pursues the object.

• After this loss of honour (for such was the decree's real significance), conservative nobles retreated into passivity or departed altogether.

• To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her own imaginary world and characters was a form of false worship.

• Whenever it seems that a summatory point is going to be made, the author persistently retreats into jargon, loading his sentences with unnecessarily complex terminology.

• They believe that such terms can only stand for internal mechanisms; a behaviorist who uses them must therefore be retreating from behaviorism.

• Study courses and retreats were methods used to spread the word among a core of activists.

• As silence retreats, the sonic entity in our external world enters in and becomes part of the constant exchange inside us.

• The literature also indicates that the glaciers generally retreated during the first half of the nineteenth century.

• Middle-class residents were anxious to demarcate themselves from the working class, and sought to do so by retreating into private suburban domesticity.