Sentence examples for retreat deep from inspiring English sources
It is an old-school play, revived by Roger Federer to get the ball back against servers like Andy Roddick, but it requires a retreat deep behind the baseline after the return.
Following the rise of Islam in Arabia in the 7th century, Muslim power flowed over the Red Sea coast, forcing the Ethiopians to retreat deep into their mountain fastness.
Minutes earlier his makeshift team had surrendered to a seventh straight defeat and he had been forced to retreat deep inside the home dugout during a second half in which stewards permitted two hysterical fans stationed near the technical area to subject him to a cascade of abuse.
When life throws you a curveball, you retreat deep into your shell, thinking through every aspect of what transpired before taking any action.
An Axis offensive in Libya forced an Allied retreat deep inside Egypt until Axis forces were stopped at El Alamein.
A British man has allegedly been stabbed to death by a Canadian man who was reportedly acting in self-defense during an ayahuasca ceremony at a retreat deep in the Peruvian Amazon.
Our Web bookmarks and our chosen social-media feeds help us retreat deeper into our partisan camps.
It was the capstone of a sweeping campaign of arrests and shootings that has damaged the Brotherhood's core organization more than any crackdown in eight decades, sending the group into a confused retreat deeper underground than ever before.
They were sloppy in possession where Coleman had hoped they might hold their own, and Bale had to retreat deeper into midfield in search of the ball as he sought to exert some kind of influence.
During the dry season, it is the reverse where the Malual retreat deeper into the southern Bahr Elghazal province in what is now South Sudan, leaving ample space for the Messeriya cattle owners who migrate back south from the north to graze the evacuated Malual areas (see Figures 1 and 2).
Popova: I can't speak for others, but I've found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into my existing interests as a form of self-defense against the abundance of demands for my time and attention.
