Sentence examples for Time retreating from inspiring English sources

He spends most of his time retreating.

Inexperienced at camping and not fond of the cold, the participants at the winter camp spent much of their time retreating to the heat of a nearby outlet of Tim Hortons, the ubiquitous Canadian coffee shop chain.

Walking into the Connaught Hotel in London is like taking a step back in time, retreating to some safer, cosier era when ladies wore hats, gentlemen wore suits and the likes of me were too busy polishing the floors and clambering up chimneys to cause any trouble.

It spent most of its time retreating and fuel withdrawing in the face of Luftwaffe attacks.

This game was a dramatic win for Spassky, his first since Games 1 and 2. As in Game 7, Fischer essayed his favorite Poisoned Pawn Variation; Spassky surprised him with the startling 14.Nb1 (given !! by many annotators at the time), retreating the knight to its starting position.

During the recent legislative session, from January to June, the governor lived here full-time, retreating upstairs if a public tour came through.

At the time, "retreat" was not even in their vocabulary.

"Professional designers have, time and time again, retreated from the scene of battle.

"Now is not time to retreat, it's time to reload".

Those for whom cancer was something that simply came, pillaged and withdrew – only to strike two more times before retreating into the shadows.

The perception that hard times were retreating carried both Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan to re-election, in 1936 and 1984, despite economic struggles earlier in their terms.