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Sentence count:250+18Posted:2016-07-22Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: fall backretirereversewithdrawAntonym: advanceSimilar words: get readytreatyentreattreatmentstretchstretch outstreamstreakMeaning: [rɪ'trɪːt]  n. 1. (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat 2. a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet 3. (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position 4. (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset 5. an area where you can be alone 6. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation. v. 1. pull back or move away or backward 2. move away, as for privacy 3. move back 4. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. 
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211. Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.
212. He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching, but it was not hasty enough.
213. Inpart, this retreat reflected a natural contraction in foreign policy concerns by a number of members.
214. Five years later, the new albums represent neither an expansion nor a retreat but a hesitant reluctance to set out anew.
215. Cut loose from its eyes suddenly, the mind will rear up , spin, retreat.
216. Houston and his small force of Texans camped on the first night of their retreat from Gonzales.
217. As night fell the Empire army was in full retreat with wolf riders snapping at their heels.
218. The group has a regular daily attendance of 22 youngsters, and currently meets at St Joseph's Retreat.
219. During a time of meditation in that retreat,(sentencedict.com) he wrote a note which survived.
220. Refereee Kevin Breen ordered a Chester free kick to be retaken after 35 minutes when Coughlin failed to retreat 10 yards.
221. Here dear Anderson had built a retreat for her bantams - there was no man kinder or more trustworthy.
222. Frim successful persuasion, advance and retreat by easy stages.
223. With more participants joining this years retreat, I was hardly lacking in any help or advice and I had no cause to be disappointed in my expectations.
224. Original program reduces an area with centrosphere and talk with the developing zone only, the area of 80% above have not go back farmer and retreat agrarian.
225. If the worst comes to the worst", Becky thought, "my retreat is secure; and I have a right-hand seat in the barouche.
226. The army had been compelled to retreat from Vilna owing to various complex considerations of state, of policy, and tactics.
227. Near Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Sun Meadow resort is another cold-climate nudist retreat with ample side attractions.
228. Mr. Obama and his family will spend the next week on vacation, at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland and on the Atlantic resort island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
229. The jet stream will retreat poleward, and rain-bearing storms that travel along the jet will have more moisture to precipitate out, since more water vapor can evaporate into a warmer atmosphere.
230. Most news organizations are in retreat, shuttering bureaus and laying off journalists. But the former "Red China News Agency" doesn't need to worry about the inconvenience of turning a profit.
231. The couple are expected to spend ten days there and are due to fly out by private jet in mid-May before being taken by helicopter from the mainland to the tropical retreat.
232. Scarabeo Stone Camp, a tented retreat set amid the desert highlands of Morocco, is a vanisher's paradise.
233. An Indian glaciologist, Syed Iqbal Hasnain, now at the Stimson Center in Washington, told me that most Himalayan glaciers are in retreat for three reasons.
234. The campers typically don't remember details of the retreat, says Caitlin Morgan, the gerontologist and social worker who directs the camp. But the experience significantly lifts their mood.
235. The St. Regis is a luxury retreat on a generous stretch of beach arguably among the better stretches of sin Asia, comparable to Phuket or Bali, ideal for walks, sun bathing swimming.
236. Cover is of high importance to achieve tactical advantages. Suppressive fire will button the enemy and they hardly will shoot back or have any chance to retreat without high casualties.
237. They went there to have a nice, you know, retreat from all the hubbub of the capital city of Cuzco.
238. She envisions a time when the writing and travel will not preoccupy her so and she can retreat on a piece of land and create her own garden, raising her own food.
239. The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible discharge of musketry.
240. A static state balance appearance of the Laizhou gulf is: the Zhaoyuan will also retreat 228 m, the boundary river mouth retreat larger, is 678 m, the Shihuzui northeast segment will silt up 593 m.
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