Sentence examples for only retreat from inspiring English sources

"If you get attacked, you can only retreat".

"Your home is your castle, you can only retreat so far as your home," Assistant Police Chief Jamie Smith said.

There was no riot, only retreat, and when a reporter from the Record drove up Stag Hill looking for reaction, she was met with slammed doors.

Now the property is home to the Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, which says it is the only retreat house in New York City.

Or would they sag, much as the careers of writers with a genetic inheritance who found success young and whose only retreat was self-parody?

So exposed has he been to the media glare since returning from the Athens Olympics seven years ago as a teenage hero that his family and friends have provided his only retreat.

They only retreated after Indian troops confronted them.

Limiting the free movement of people would require EU treaty change, a horizon that has only retreated from view.

It only retreats from view, moving from the skin back to large clusters of nerve cells that lie on either side of the spinal cord.

McComb adds that "older matriarchs appeared better at some voice discriminations in particular, telling the difference between Maasai men and boys so that they only retreated when faced with men's voices".

Indeed, as the bill worked its way through Congress, Obama threatened to veto it, and only retreated after various provisions were modified.