Sentence examples for before retreating back from inspiring English sources

The girl smiles back before retreating back into the shadows with her father.

We joined in for a while, before retreating back onboard.

I liked Du Yun's "When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa," whose serene opening turns frenetically aggressive before retreating back into tense quiet.

At midnight on the dot, she emerged for a matter of seconds to cut a big red ribbon with huge scissors before retreating back to the store to shop, as promised, with the golden-ticket holders.

Located in the south-east of the Tramuntana region, the village makes a tranquil base – ideal for popping into the nearby tourist honeypots of Valdemossa and Deia before retreating back to the peaceful medieval streets.

She could be the lovechild of Alan Bennett and Pam Ayres, and like a lot of quiet people has a trace of passive aggression, landing sly blows before retreating back into her shell.

For about five minutes, the imposing heads – each measuring 7m long – cock their heads in all directions and move to eerie music and clanging bells, before slowly retreating back inside. .

Situated in between the driver and the staircase, the screens will display a map of free and taken seats, preventing you from having to awkwardly pop your head upstairs to look for somewhere to sit before sheepishly retreating back downstairs.

It produced the twin curiosities of Bill O'Brien being briefly in the mix after one whole season as a head coach at Penn State and Oregon's Chip Kelly making the interview rounds before reportedly retreating back to the land of the Ducks, where N.C.A.A. troubles may or may not await him.

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She recalls the final exchanges with her husband, the look of his retreating back, her sense of anxiety, before she confronts the ghosts of her husband's family and an earlier tragedy over 100 years before.