Retreat

//ɹɪˈtɹiːt//

"Retreat" in a Sentence (27 examples)

The army had to retreat.

I was uncertain whether to advance or to retreat.

The trumpets sounded the retreat.

He decided neither to advance nor to retreat.

They had no alternative but to retreat.

The enemy behind us presently exists solely to cut off our retreat.

Jackson was not planning to retreat.

The leader ordered the troops to retreat.

We must retreat.

The general gave the order to retreat.

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In a retreat he outruns any lackey.

The general opted for a swift retreat because he saw his troops were vastly outnumbered.

a mountain retreat

"[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"

[…] he built his son a house of pleasure, on purpose to keep him out of harm's way; and spared neither art nor cost to make it a delicious retreat.

That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat / From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.

In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

When Herbert Kochta first thought about designing a five-star alpine hotel just outside the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, a mere 300 yards from the ruins of the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, the veteran Munich architect knew he could conceptualize a hotel on a hill in either of two ways.

We both need a week retreat after those two stressful years working in the city.

a Buddhist retreat

a company retreat

Obviously she is trying to blend in at the über–bachelor party that is the GoJo corporate retreat in Norway.

For example, Steve Jobs used to run an annual retreat for what he considered the 100 most important people at Apple, and these were not the 100 people highest on the org chart.

to-morrow the Royal Standard will be hoisted at Edinburgh Castle from reveille to retreat.

The general refused to order his soldiers to retreat, despite being vastly outnumbered.

a retreating forehead

His face was a fair weakness, his chin retreated, and his hair lay in crisp, almost flaxen curls on his low forehead; his eyes were rather large, pale blue, and blankly staring.

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