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On seeing us, the deer stood stock-still for a moment, then turned and retreated into the forest.
I saw her coming and retreated.
The battle ended in an ignominious retreat from the front line.
The luxury resort is used as a retreat by the rich and famous.
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.