Sentence examples for be retreat from inspiring English sources
verb
To withdraw military forces.
"This must be retreat week," said Anthony Bucco, the Senate majority leader.
But it's also an honest appraisal making clear that for many places, whether it's ever an active policy decision or not, the only realistic option will be retreat.
Even if this was a "tactical retreat," as some rebel leaders described it, the key word here seems to be "retreat".
"The challenge is we have built most of our civilization within a few feet of sea level or right at the edge," said Gary Griggs, a coastal geologist at UC Santa Cruz who co-wrote the book "Living With the Changing California Coast". "It's either going to be managed or unmanaged, but it's going to be retreat". Some coastal residences are already faced with similar predicaments.
The fighters now appear to be retreating.
And if that were true, we should indeed be retreating.
Responding patients may be retreated as symptoms dictate to good effect.
Subjects treated at the week 78 visit could not be retreated again at week 104.
Another option is retreat.
That's not leadership; that's retreat.
