Sentence examples for he retreated for from inspiring English sources

After the election defeat, he retreated for a holiday to the Klosters chalet of Hannah's brother, financier Nat Rothschild, 38.

Then he retreated for much of the next two decades, and came out the other side an elegant older man with a stronger, softer art.

A less unified team might have found cause for pessimism when Escudé strained his back badly in the third game of the third set when he fell hard as he retreated for an overhead.

As the king lives out what seems a rather lonely sunset, she is his closest companion as he travels between his Phnom Penh palace -- no longer the social and diplomatic center it once was -- and a guest house in Beijing, where he retreats for much of the year to rest and receive medical care.

He retreated from us for quite a long time".

So he retreated from activism for nearly 15 years, only returning in 2009 to form the AFP – just in time for the rise of the alt right.

And then she retreated for a while, raising a child.

He retreated from public life for nearly two months of this spring's important budget session of parliament, going abroad to "introspect".

He retreated from his demands for an end to Israeli settlement of Palestinian land – a demand he had personally made – and backtracked on a promise to close Guantánamo detention facility.

Written off politically, he retreated from the limelight for three years only to return as Governor of New York in 1928 and President in 1933.

De Quincey became increasingly solitary and eccentric, especially after his wife's death in 1837, and he often retreated for long periods into opium dreams.