Sentence examples for retreating figure from inspiring English sources

"Great," Ms. Leary murmurs to his retreating figure.

"Who the -- ?" "She?" responded the longtime prisoner, indicating the warden's retreating figure.

"You will be on YouTube!" he shouted gleefully to another retreating figure.

"I'll have what he had," I say, pointing at the retreating figure of the man who ordered before me.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, August 3, 1929 P. 9 "Fare thee well, thou grand old ruin!" From a boy in short pants, to the retreating figure of an elderly lady dinner guest.

The New Yorker, August 3 , 1929P. 9 "Fare thee well, thou grand old ruin!" From a boy in short pants, to the retreating figure of an elderly lady dinner guest.

Retreating figures weaved uncertainly, weak and purposeless, broken.

"The approach of a male figure could signal some danger, whereas the retreating female figure could elicit a tendency for children to follow them," Schouten says.

It is a heaving process, rooted in the sticky, roiling tohu vavohu: advancing and retreating, the figure appearing and dissolving again as he repeats her edges and shapes, adjusting without entirely erasing.

Mr. Gordon properly rejected that, and he retreated to figure out a way to frame the all-important porn passage without sacrificing scientific research.

Finally the figure retreats into a wardrobe and shuts the doors behind him.