Similar words: beat a retreat, retreat, retreated, creating, overeating, retread, treatise, beating. Meaning: [rɪ'trɪːt] adj. moving back or away.
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31. Purple lines floated on the surfaces of his eyes, coming briefly into focus, then retreating into vague smudges.
32. Madonna shared a corner table with Evans and Rossellini for a while before retreating to the bar area.
33. Amelia loved poetry and had an ingrained habit of retreating into it to handle difficult situations.
34. Far from rejecting internationalism and retreating to isolationism, the Republicans were proposing to go beyond containment.
35. It was about laying waste enemy territory, about the pursuit of a retreating army, about sieges.
36. Atop their pillars round the Sheldonian Theatre, the busts of Roman emperors cast classically guarded looks at his retreating figure.
37. Retreating from the strange creature Barbara loses her balance and tumbles over a cliff.
38. What a spectre is that retreating sail!
39. Technically, they're retreating, but strategically, they're advancing.
40. During the Iraq War, American forces shelled Baghdad to deter the Republican Guard from retreating into the city.
41. The Waffen-SS divisions were now constantly retreating, though every so often a handful of tanks and panzergrenadiers would turn to form a rearguard .
42. But, they say, the effects are more noticeable in and near Juneau , where most glaciers are retreating 30 feet a year or more.
43. Shock troops were sent to hang on the rear of the retreating enemy.
44. The backshore dunes' retreating, the berms' lowering, and the shoreline's moving landwards was the main response feature of the profiles.
45. The artillery had a field day with the retreating enemy infantry.
46. London Metal Exchange copper rallied 5.6% at the open of electronic trading Monday, but the move proved to be a knee-jerk reaction, with prices retreating soon after.
47. Through a telescope we watched the unfolding drama of a puffin on a ledge, peering over the edge, thinking better of it, retreating, advancing, retreating.
48. Far from retreating , the women stood their ground , shouting angrily and rallying for a second attack.
49. They kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian.
50. From the hill base, the Hunter and the surviving Elites had re-formed their line and were retreating, already fifty meters away.
51. South Korea says the North Korean patrol boat suffered heavy damage in the exchange before retreating.
52. The young nurse pulled a face at the Matron's retreating figure.
53. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house!
54. The Marquis looked that way, and listened for the retreating step of his valet.
55. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,(sentencedict.com/retreating.html) down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
56. MITAG will travel WNW to NW in the next 36 hours along the southwestern periphery of the retreating subtropical ridge.
57. Their own promptitude in retreating at the critical moment saved them.
58. One of the retreating jobs was to dismantle the jib of a crawler mounted mobile crane.
59. Owing to the human activities, too much cutting of the forests and hunting, lesser pandas disappeared in part of the lesser panda districts and are constantly retreating to the southern mountains.
60. By burning his ships and eliminating the option of quickly retreating to Europe, Cortez guaranteed that he wouldn't leave his allies.
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