Similar words: beat a retreat, retreat, get ready, treat, treaty, entreat, treatise, mistreat. Meaning: [rɪ'trɪːt] n. people who have retreated.
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91. As his father approached, Richard retreated steadily, never once daring to stand his ground against him.
92. Since that period government has retreated from the promise of full employment.
93. I retreated into my shell, being painfully shy in the first place.
94. In the end l retreated to the sofa, where I spent a cold, uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night.
95. I felt myself blush and I gritted my teeth, glad he had retreated behind the glossy pages.
96. The sycamores retreated into the canyons -- the only places with enough moisture and the right climate to support them.
97. The little girls retreated to the padded bench in the bay window.
98. She had retreated further and further away from them all, Emmie thought.
99. As the demonstrators retreated,(sentencedict.com) they were pursued by fire tenders which doused everything in sight.
100. Dionysus retreated before him and even took refuge from him in the depths of the sea.
101. He retreated to Highgrove and took out some of his frustration on the soil and the polo field.
102. Recently the jet stream has retreated northward, meteorologists say, leaving the field undefended against those intrusive southern storms.
103. During the nineteenth century it retreated west of the Mississippi, and by 1880 was a rare bird everywhere.
104. But his employer had rapidly retreated behind the mask of business and not once had referred to that isolated moment of passion.
105. Patients could be retreated if more than 4 weeks had elapsed since the initial treatment.
106. The tide had now retreated, forcing us to wade through shallow water, kayaks in tow.
107. The flight commander, without having the chance to say one word, retreated in haste.
108. The adults had retreated from this childhood world, but not very far.
109. Neither retreated more than a few steps before attacking with renewed ferocity, driving the other back. Sentencedict.com
110. Politely declining a plateful, I retreated upstairs for a more conventional lunch.
111. Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed, sleeping happily once again, while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room.
112. Seven years earlier, she had retreated from marriage to protect her career; now she would marry to defend her independence.
113. Constable Quince had retreated behind a stack of deckchairs and extinguished his cigarette.
114. We lay on the glossy sand as the waves rustled up, soaked us and retreated.
115. Gooch has developed as a captain, too, pulling strings whereas before he might have retreated.
116. I retreated to leave the master to it and lay happily in the sun.
117. Jim saw me approaching and quickly retreated down a side street.
118. The government had retreated: radical Thatcherism backed off from fundamental reform of the system.
119. The Santanistas then retreated to La Griega, being hard pressed by the government troops.
120. And Mr Blunkett retreated from his devaluation demand, after an appeal from Mr Smith.
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