Sentence examples for a retreating from inspiring English sources

In extra-time a tiring Barcelona advanced at a stroll against a retreating defence.

He has thin, curved lips, a retreating hairline, but not in the least receding resentment.

Ten minutes from time, though, Delph ran at a retreating defence before finding the top corner from 20 yards.

In forward flight an advancing blade moves faster, relative to the surrounding air, than a retreating one.

A warm front is the boundary between a mass of warm air and a retreating mass of cold air.

And outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem an Arab woman was nursing her baby in a retreating patch of shade.

From the start Omam-Biyik's willingness to run at a retreating defence looked like causing Argentina problems.

In its place — like a dark and sinister reef revealed by a retreating tide — came an excruciating pain.

They picked up a yellow card of their own – Mark Lambert  – and even conceded a penalty try at a retreating scrum late on.

But at its end I looked at the vast, dark fields, emptying with startling speed and carpeted with the debris of a retreating army.

Unless a retreating defender used nuclear weapons immediately, any later use could well be over his own territory and against a dispersed enemy.