Sentence examples for retreating before from inspiring English sources

Vaughan said: "It's bigger than any ice shelf we've seen retreating before, and in the long term it could be a taste of other things to come.

Some glaciers, like those in the Alps, were already retreating before the 20th-century burst of greenhouse emissions.

James Peale's painting depicts the critical moment when Washington rode onto the battlefield and rallied the militia, which had been retreating before British attacks.

Running with the ball almost from the center circle, the Montenegrins retreating before him, Townsend sighted the goal and let fly with his right foot from way outside the penalty box.

Luckily, Priscilla pursues hers: the New Thought, the Occult — for her, these things are objects of desire, tantalizingly retreating before her down the corridors of her house and out the French windows.

Tajik, on the other hand, has a lifeline through its close connection with Persian, but it too has been retreating before Uzbek, an unrelated language of the Turkic group.

The baying protesters jeered and howled as the police retreated, before looting the building.

The aircraft retreated before any action was taken.

One approached a guard and then retreated before exploding himself.

He insisted the Iraqi troops had not planned to retreat before the Islamic State.

Scotland retreated before the surge once, twice – but did not allow the ball to be grounded.