Sentence examples for was retreat from inspiring English sources
verb
To withdraw military forces.
In other areas too, there was retreat or uncertainty.
Some people told me that they thought the only realistic response for South Florida was retreat.
This irritated me because the one thing I didn't do was retreat.
My favorite part was "Retreat Stories," in which various people described their experiences and recommended places they'd stayed.
Among the policy changes of the new government was retreat from the Social Democrats' commitment to end the use of nuclear power by 2010.
What Hitler did was retreat increasingly into a fantasy world in which a new German counter-offensive, the deployment of "wonder weapons" such as the V1 and V2 rockets, or a falling out among the Allies would rescue the Third Reich from inevitable defeat.
In any case, by 1944 regionalist fiction was retreating.
Corbyn, meanwhile, was retreating back into non-cooperation.
This patient was retreated 1 week after initial Cyberknife treatment.
The patient was retreated with hydroxycarbamide, but developed leg ulceration necessitating discontinuation.
Each cell set was retreated with the same siRNA 24 h later.
