Sentence examples for quickly retreating from inspiring English sources

Fighters were regularly attacking the government forces, then quickly retreating.

The protests calling for Mubarak's ouster, which had unified men and women, were quickly retreating from people's minds as their demands grew more specific and fragmented.

The incident, which was caught on camera by members of the public, was quickly uploaded to social media and one video shows a police officer attempting to approach the vehicle before quickly retreating.

Not surprisingly, opponents of marriage equality are quickly retreating from the plebiscite option because we no longer have a prime minister who would have crafted a public vote to their advantage.

Bypass that pair, and Western Sydney's quickly retreating low block defence, and the opponent must get past the towering backline of Daniel Mullen (187cm), Brendan Hamill (184cm), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (191cm) and Antony Golec (194cm).

The situation isn't nearly so dire in the Senate, but Lott has seemed surprisingly unsteady — faltering on the disaster-relief bill, defending Air Force First Lieutenant Kelly Flinn (to the chagrin of military purists and other conservatives), clumsily lambasting the President as "a spoiled brat" and then quickly retreating.

Mr. Cooley quickly retreated.

The boats quickly retreated.

The Bush administration quickly retreated.

Afterward, he quickly retreated to the L.S.U.

Mr. Boehner was forced to quickly retreat from the bill.