Sentence examples for the retreating from inspiring English sources

Thomas could then attack the retreating Confederates on their flank.

The American crews had begun by extinguishing oil fires set by the retreating Iraqis.

Modern Japan is France, an ally of the retreating hegemon and a declining regional power.

This allowed the retreating Germans to dig in and prolong the war.

In World War II, he joined Communist guerrillas fighting the retreating German forces.

From the vantage point of the retreating colonizers, however, it was in one way fairly successful.

Morris, born in 1926, had seen the imperial sunset, followed the retreating imperial armies.

When the Red Army overran Latvia in 1944-45, most collaborators fled with the retreating Germans.

The retreating Genoese then carried the disease to Messina, Sicily, in November 1347.

The retreating Taliban stole the beds, the generator and the X-ray machine.

Both men cited the retreating glacier as evidence of the urgency in addressing climate change.