Sentence examples for retreating down from inspiring English sources
He recites the adhan, rising through the register in fractions of notes, hitting the highest with avian clarity, then retreating down the scale in resolution.
I consider and reject retreating down the staircase twice before slipping into the tramlines and, seconds later, gravity propels me faster than I've ever travelled on skis before.
Did I imagine or did I see Van Johnson, the actor, a camel's-hair coat over his shoulders, retreating down the gangplank backward, waving?
While some were swept down the main street others were shot by a bombardment despite retreating down the side street as requested by police.
It was certainly a strange few minutes but, retreating down the tunnel at half-time, Lamela looked as if he felt 10ft tall.
A tank unit commander, General Ezmerai, said he remembered retreating down the same road in 1996 as the Taliban advanced on Kabul.
He attempted to retreat down to the Jordan at the Jisr ed Damieh bridge via Beit Dejan, 7 mile east south east of Nablus, but found this way blocked by Chaytor's Force.
Twice widowed, Burroughs retreated down the coast to Wells, eighty miles north of Boston.
The cats cock their heads, puzzled, then retreat down the stairs.
On that journey, 11 climbers died, 9 of them after an ice pillar broke the fixed ropes they needed to retreat down an icy chute called the Bottleneck.
When they retreated down the bluff, they faced yet another miscalculation: a severe shortage of boats to transport them men across the river back to Maryland.
