Sentence examples for has retreated behind from inspiring English sources

Today, she has retreated behind a police guard, refusing all interviews.

But ever since the early hours of 24 June, Labour's deputy leader has retreated behind a blank facial glaze so opaque as to render him completely inscrutable.

The battered opposition from the Derby has retreated behind the ropes to allow a new wave of competition to step forward, and not too hesitantly, with around a dozen opponents expected.

By the end the audience has almost lost sight of the emotional stakes, as the tragedy at the dark heart of the play has retreated behind a gauzy scrim of giddy wordplay.

McConnell also said that Obama had "retreated behind the poll-tested rhetoric of class warfare".

The Knicks, meanwhile, have retreated behind a wall of administrative silence, slipped into a virtual no-comment coma.

By mid-September, the Germans had retreated behind their great bastion, the Hindenburg Line, three miles in depth.

"Do you want some?" Edgar's eyes these days had retreated behind his jutting cheekbones and sprouting eyebrows; something suave had gone out of his manner.

Openly gay at Berkeley, he had retreated behind the closet door when he got to Washington; but he continued to hold, if not to express, tolerant views on the "social issues".

[Update: Yes; McConnell has proposed a plan that involves a fake scramble of Presidential and Congressional roles, and what would amount to fake votes to provide venues for fake outrage.] McConnell also said that Obama had "retreated behind the poll-tested rhetoric of class warfare".

I try not to gawp (Wee Tee has retreated to hide behind a pillar) as about a dozen large hooks are pierced through the skin of his back then attached by string to a cumbersome effigy of a god which he will now pull around the course.