Sentence examples for withdrawn toward from inspiring English sources

By the late summer of 1944, German forces in Italy had withdrawn toward the Gothic Line, a chain of defended positions stretching across the Italian peninsula.

He showed how Croats should withdraw toward Mostar, and Muslims should give up strategic ancestral land.

American airstrikes forced the gunmen to withdraw toward the Pakistani border.

But as they withdrew toward the desert two hours later they spotted them: Union cavalry in the woods downstream.

Shortly after four o'clock, a number of Union brigades, including those led by future army commanders William Tecumseh Sherman and Oliver Otis Howard, withdrew toward Sudley Ford and Stone Bridge (see Map 5).

"We have opened up a corridor and given them room to withdraw toward Kosovo to avoid the worst -- casualties among the civilians," said a Yugoslav general, Ninoslav Krstic.

The summer rainy season started around the 24th pentad (late April), earlier than the 62-year mean, and withdrew toward the end of the year.

These results indicate that the summer rainy season starts simultaneously in the entire Philippines around late May and withdraws toward mid-December.

As the French withdrew toward the Rhine, Charles and Wartensleben pressed forward.

Long's men, as they were nearly out of ammunition, withdrew toward Fort Edward, burning the stockaded fort.

The few Austrian corps not trapped at Ulm withdrew toward Vienna, with the French in close pursuit.