Sentence examples for retreating through from inspiring English sources

This century, retreating through midfield, he has been a legend at Hartlepool over a dozen seasons.

"We've been retreating through the forest for 40 years, and all it's done is get us lost.

In the Dunkirk section of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' the protagonist, a British soldier retreating through chaos and death toward Dunkirk, sees a barge going by".

By midday the Americans were retreating through Park Slope in a desperate attempt to cross Gowanus Creek (now Canal) to their fortifications in Brooklyn Heights.

Six years later, in 1944, German troops retreating through Florence blew up all of its historic bridges except the fabled Ponte Vecchio and mined the medieval centre.

The last monitor, alone in a further room, shows TV static and dim footage of a highway at night, retreating through a car's rear window.

Union forces, "soundly beaten," retreated through the town, scrambling to the high ground at Cemetery Hill.

Booming pendulum strokes emerge and retreat through layers of different movements.

He playfully took a shot from halfcourt during a break and then retreated through a side door.

They came originally from al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida, but retreated through Syria to Lebanon after his death.

Time took it from him but it also retreated through space when he fled into exile to escape the Nazis.