Sentence examples for way of retreating from inspiring English sources

She held herself tensely and had a way of retreating into her thoughts.

The real star of Lost In Translation, this towering masterpiece is the best way of retreating after a bewildering working day in Tokyo.

This, I suspect, is Morris's way of retreating back into his own warped woodwork, and of telling the world to "shit off".

He, Philip Hudgkins, a transfer student with a way of retreating even as he moved forward, held little appeal for those who might have wished, in other circumstances, to be cruel.

If a man's home is his castle, in this case it was also his life support, a way of retreating to an environment that didn't fight him but that lifted him up--quite literally.

A. Thomas McLellan, director of the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, said the way to judge the wisdom of retreating to a bubble of sobriety like Delray Beach was to ask: "Where were they before?

The way to handle it, instead of retreating, was to form the troops up, use their bearcat (an armored vehicle that's used to recover wounded people), and equip less-than-lethal munitions (and I saw them deployed out there) fired from a 37-mm gas gun or fired from shotguns.

On 17 May 1905, Norway's Constitution Day, Nansen addressed a large crowd in Christiania, saying: Now have all ways of retreat been closed.

Another night of retreating from the dark.

The sequence of retreating units remains unclear.

Conventional ITN programmes also incur the cost of retreating nets.