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Sentence Examples The bank is steep ochre clay, water-scoured by spring floods and melt from the retreating glaciers to the east. With a large flock like Cinnamon Nose's, Nop casts from one side to another, rousting one flank of the retreating flock and then the other. The Chin army began a systematic advance at the same moment that their retreating chariots wheeled and fell on the Tzu-hsi's exposed flanks. Visually retreating to an indeterminate distance are soft-focus spots or clouds of unbroken color clunkily applied with an airbrush. But, instead of retreating into pointless recriminations and bitter words, he sought a pragmatic way forward. Only by scourging ourselves and retreating to some bizarre ascetic vision of humanity can we be redeemed. The retreating forces regrouped and met up with their main force at the bottom of the hill. The wall of fire quickly spread and encircled the androids while giving cover to the retreating humans. The First Shock Army was retreating along a narrow corridor between two series of hills. Now, however, in the wake of this second wave of attack, they were retreating, having realized defeat. Each charge was fast and quick, with the Indians retreating almost as soon as the gunfire erupted from the rocks. He backed away from the fire, retreating to the rear of the cave, and huddled against the rock, trying to block out the voices calling his name. It seemed, at the sound of rapidly retreating footsteps, that he did not want to see me. The girl squeaked, dropped the phone, and I heard her footsteps retreating away from the phone. Cate remained standing there, watching the doors swing and listening to the soft sound of Alexander's retreating footsteps. Shivering he slowed his breathing and closed his mind, retreating within himself in one of the meditation rituals. Until now, the life force that grew with the strength of the sun has been retreating into the fruit and the grain. Riot police lined the sidewalk and followed the march on bicycles and motorcycles, at times ramming the retreating protesters. As the rate of rising sea level gradually slowed, rivers began to build deltas from retreating shorelines into the encroaching seas. Starting at a climax and retreating from there, a logy middle section evaporates into a yawning abyss exactly five minutes wide. Show More Sentences Diana would occasionally come out of her room, and eat something before retreating back to her sanctuary. The boundary between the mudflat and the retreating marsh is a unique environment. I listened until her retreating footsteps told me she was gone, and then got up to bar the door. After retreating away from her, Keiran was silent for a moment, lost in thought. The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan. One probably should not, however, attempt toplessness too often amid booming lorries on the M25, as I did once before retreating under the roof. I sped along the road, which headed across the retreating reservoir, and, as I started to fishtail, realized that this road was actually a berm. It seemed that an American retreating from the confrontation had tripped the switch on his musket. Her eyes on his retreating form, a sigh of relief escaped Callie's slightly moist lips, and she swiped at them unconsciously. Defensemen remained as a staunch back line on the blue line, retreating at the mere sniff of a turnover in possession. He had shot his bolt by the seventies, retreating into gloomy introspection. I like to think it was a part of me that hovered there, lost and afraid, alien and lonely, slinking after my retreating steps. In the cage, I could hear only the sluice and swoosh of rushing and retreating water. Jack came back upstairs moments after Sean and sighed heavily, slumping against the door, then quickly retreating to the safety of his office. Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei. Jordan just watched his retreating back with her eyes narrowed in suspicion. When the continents were uplifted at the end of the Flood, the incredible energy of the retreating floodwaters carved the landscape. On the other hand, if a cold air mass is retreating and warm air is advancing, a warm front exists. When an animal emerged to forage, the noose was pulled tight, preventing the animal from retreating back into its burrow. Harps striker Chris Breen bustled his way towards the box only to be impeded by the retreating Phillip Byrne. Show More Sentences Introverts re-charge their batteries by retreating to a quiet and non-stimulating environment. The ball struck him and the referee then dismissed him for not retreating ten yards. Both players should be aggressive staying with the player they have switched without retreating. If we look at the Napier airport, we see that hectares and hectares of land were created by the sea retreating. The heist began with the robbers deliberately setting off the alarm system and retreating into bushes. Instead of gratefully and quietly retreating behind his mansion gates, he was seen living it up in some Santiago supper clubs. Like many others, they strolled out along the cliff-top path to Holland Point to watch the sea retreating. His timely rescue of London from a retreating force of Frankish mercenaries who had been in the pay of Allectus was a huge propaganda victory. It seems to have done best in Late Pleistocene times, as the glaciers of the last ice age were retreating. Today, perversely, government is retreating from the limited areas where it has a natural responsibility. Turning away to look helplessly at Kaethe, he inched sideways along the wall like a retreating crab. As I opened the rust plagued door to the pickup, I saw him close the door, retreating back into the house. Chrystyn looked at her retreating back contemplatively, her face thoughtful. With one last glance at her retreating back, he turned and walked back into the house. It could make the difference between leading the world to better health or retreating into irrelevance. She stared after him until his retreating form was no longer discernible through the trees. The white froth of the waves would bubble and sizzle, before retreating back into the vast ocean. We've had glaciations and we've had warmer periods, and vegetation would creep back as the glaciers were retreating. It is true that in some areas glaciers are retreating, but the venues for the Winter Olympics rely more on snow fields than glaciers. As well, glaciers that supply the rivers with much of their water are melting and retreating faster. Show More Sentences Fired on by guns from both flanks and to the front, he and a few dragoons reached the Russian line before retreating. The French might be retreating to economic fantasy land, deluding themselves they could enjoy a 35-hour week without sacrificing living standards. The footsteps resumed again, retreating into the dark once more. The throng took a collective breath before retreating back behind their office doors. Such a theology must still be intellectually alive and energetic, recognizing the plurality of the canon and not retreating into a narrow biblicism. The beach at low tide stretches so far that to go for a paddle you must patter for a quarter of an hour across the stripy rippled sand, hardened by the retreating tide. Now, with pressure mounting, Arab journalists, along with Arab translators and fixers employed by international news organizations, are retreating, too. When the ship reached Sydney, the lovers eloped, retreating to the bush, where they ensured that the children born were imbued with cultivated manners and tastes. About 10,000 years ago, boulders and soils trapped beneath retreating ice sheets were moulded into drumlins, and it is believed there is an island for each day of the year. In his paintings, with their air-spun castles and dense, rocky crags, presented in thick, hazy, heavily impastoed surfaces, the world is remote and ever retreating. His penchant for formalwear helped, but it had more to do with him pulling a party together and then retreating from it. If opponents of gay rights are supposed to be retreating into oblivion, they missed the memo. The Serb population inside Bosnia rallied to the cause even as those forces were retreating rapidly. For retreating in 1999, sharif was overthrown in a coup by the army commander, Pervez Musharraf, who had planned the Kargil War. Respectfully retreating to the side of the room with five of the princesses, Lord Cecil bit back a sigh as he observed a significant glance between Briar and Althia. But there have been some stunning White House reversals, like retreating from the claim the government has the authority for warrantless wiretapping. She also urged Japan to quicken the pace of a project aimed at disposing of the huge stockpiles of chemical weapons left in China by retreating Japanese armies. This city's normal population is only 85,000 and last week 400,000 retreating Leftists and hostages jammed it almost beyond bearing, with food running crucially short. The usual habitat of these whales is the open ocean and the edges of continental shelves except in polar regions where they follow retreating ice edges. Without much delay, Rahaena's army of monster hunters and mercenaries charged forward, chipping away at the retreating legion like a whittler at wood. Show More Sentences Richard Dalby broke clear but his shot struck a post and rebounded back, hitting a retreating defender on the knee and cannoning into the net from 18 yards out. While thus fettered I was seized and flung down by a heavy sea which retreating suddenly left me lying naked on the sharp shingle from which I rose streaming with blood. For numerous riders over the years this elongated run-in has proved mental and physical agony when the winning post seems to be retreating with every weary stride. The interlude between sharing him with an adoring cooking class and retreating to our cottage was simmering fork play. Batman resents Superman for disbanding the Justice League and retreating into isolating. With commitments to friends and work groups within the League, it's just another tie that binds me to the outside world and keeps me from retreating into a shell on the couch. Allied forces quickly ruptured the German front and penetrated deep behind the lines, while Allied aircraft mercilessly strafed the retreating Germans. Slowly, they emerge out of a cloud of dust, like a weary ragtag army retreating from battle, a column of guests hauling enormous suitcases and mewling children. By April 1945, German forces were retreating on all fronts in northern Italy and occupied Yugoslavia, following continuous Allied attacks. In the winter of 1920, the Great Siberian Ice March occurred, when the retreating White Russian Army crossed frozen Lake Baikal. The Philadelphia dialect is now retreating away from many of the traditional features it once shared in common with New York City. The regressing libido apparently desexualizes itself by retreating back step-by-step to the presexual stage of earliest infancy. At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains. The Parliamentarians looted the Dalton neighbourhood before retreating to Cartmel the same night. Our gannet-like gluttony saw us retreating rotundly to the hotel's White Bar, a favourite with the city's fashionistas. Hamdan also appears to be retreating when the lethal shot is fired. The dorm offered students the choice of retreating to the privacy of their rooms, or mingling in the common area. In the power vacuum left by the retreating Romans, the Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes began the next great migration across the North Sea. In 1945, the Baltic Sea became a mass grave for retreating soldiers and refugees on torpedoed troop transports. Towards the end, glaciers readvanced once more before retreating to their present extent. Show More Sentences Turin refused to give refuge to Maxentius' retreating forces, opening its gates to Constantine instead. As they were retreating, four men were carrying an injured officer, but the fierceness of the fight forced them to leave him behind. Following the death of her beloved Albert, she largely withdrew from public life, retreating in part to the Park. The retreating armies had burned the crops, and much of the remainder was sent back to the Reich. The retreating glaciers have left the land with morainic deposits in formations of eskers. In 1746, the retreating Jacobite army was billeted for a night in Cumbernauld village. If a retreating glacier gains enough debris, it may become a rock glacier, like the Timpanogos Glacier in Utah. The war was not going well for the loyalists and the new regency government considered retreating to Ireland. These are especially found at the ends of their arms, detecting light and retreating into crevices. The retreating Russian Manchurian Army formations disbanded as fighting units, but the Japanese failed to destroy them completely. Following their initial success, the forces of Operation Compass pursued the retreating Italian forces. Blocked from going further, they were forced to return to the beach where they provided fire support for the now retreating infantry. Fleas tried to avoid the scratching, retreating rapidly downwards and backwards through the fur. Magdelenian humans appear to have been of low stature, dolichocephalic, with a low retreating forehead and prominent brow ridges. At the same time, the advancing blade creates more lift traveling forward, the retreating blade produces less lift. Conversely, the retreating blade flaps down, develops a higher angle of attack, and generates more lift. After the measured victories at Smolensk and Borodino Napoleon occupied Moscow, only to find it burned by the retreating Russian army. The Romanian Army was also attacked by the Soviet Army, which entered Bessarabia before the Romanian administration finished retreating. According to the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, a third of the Roman army succeeded in retreating, but the losses were uncountable. Before retreating they ransomed their hostages, taking only clothes and food. Show More Sentences He did not pursue the retreating remnants, leaving what was left of the German army and their dependents intact on the other side of the Rhine. Some 40,000 Italians were captured in and around the two ports, with the remainder of the Tenth Army retreating along the coast road back to El Agheila. Three Thai infantry and one cavalry division, spearheaded by armoured reconnaissance groups and supported by the air force, engaged the retreating Chinese 93rd Division. In the Gulf War, while retreating from Kuwait, the Iraqi army had set many oil wells on fire in an attempt to disguise troop movements and to distract Coalition forces. However, when retreating from Kosovo after NATO intervention, Yugoslav units appeared combat effective with high morale and displaying large holdings of undamaged equipment. Spaniards and their Indian allies were discovered clandestinely retreating, and then were forced to fight their way out of the city, with heavy loss of life. He gets the scientific community, the New Agers, and the media interested in the rich life in the primordial ooze that the retreating tides reveal. D'Erlon's troops advanced through the Allied centre, resulting in Allied troops in front of the ridge retreating in disorder through the main position. The English appear to have erred in not staying strictly on the defensive, for when they pursued the retreating Normans they exposed their flanks to attack. Car thieves know some people de-ice their cars by turning the car engine on, heaters on full and then retreating into the warmth of their cosy house. During the evacuation, from June 28 to July 3, groups of local Communists and Soviet sympathizers attacked the retreating forces, and civilians who chose to leave. The predominance of non-local lithologies suggest that the till is englacial or supraglacial, most likely deposited from stagnant or retreating ice. Another is that the bridge was seized by a party of Argyll Militia who were involved in a skirmish when blocking the crossing of retreating Jacobites. The retreating Danish force supposedly left Britain the following summer. The Desert Air Force failed to make a maximum effort to bomb a disorganised and retreating opponent, which on 5 November was within range and confined to the coast road. Near the village of Patay, French cavalry broke through a unit of English longbowmen that had been sent to block the road, then swept through the retreating English army. Examples from Classical Literature The Indian minah, after becoming common, is said to be retreating before the English starling. The yell of the Highlanders was in their ears, and the huzzah of the English soldiers, as they dashed upon the retreating foe. But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course. Old Flint stood there a moment, listening to her retreating footfalls on the parquetry of the vast hall. The Indians who had killed my horse were retreating across the creek, using a Beaver Dam for a bridge. From there east the Austrians were retreating into the passes of the carpathians. I will seek no tax increases this year, and I have no intention of retreating from our basic program of tax relief. One night, when retreating with a weak force, he had the Waikatos at his heels. The Marquis looked that way, and listened for the retreating step of his valet. Without answering, the two were retreating into the semidarkness of the dining-room. Rhodes then fell like an avalanche upon the unexpectant and now thoroughly disorganized divisions of the retreating enemy. It was at fere Champenoise that we passed through the first village which had been entirely destroyed by the retreating Germans. Uncle abris once more grew pale, and retreating into the parlour, came out with a glass about as large as a thimble. Two of the members of Observation-Post Fourteen gaped after the retreating monster. Jackson feared that the force retreating before him might be reinforced from Banks's strong army at Harrisonburg. Or has the silver herring been borne, by the wash of retreating surges, out into the hebridean deep. The youth, after rushing about and throwing interrogations at the heedless bands of retreating infantry, finally clutched a man by the arm. Beebe, gazing after the retreating figure of Mr. Bangs, sniffed. The Russians began retreating from the northern carpathian front. But Grant, as Colonel Woodville foresaw, had no idea of retreating. Show More Sentences Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse. They had fat, heavy, chinless faces, retreating foreheads, and a scant bristly hair upon their heads. The English were retreating, and kluck was following hard after them. Rushed out after the retreating enemy to avenge his team-mate, I guess. A retreating regiment, thronging and hurrying, blocked the street. She had the keenest sense of humour, and the Parthian look which the retreating Mrs. The master of Palomar gazed after the retreating figure of his guest. He often advanced by retreating, and asserted by retraction. A blind man might have followed the trail of the retreating army. Margaret stood in the doorway, listening to the retreating footsteps. His mind is retreating, running back to some other delusions. Immediately, as if the uplifting of the smoke had been prearranged, the discovered troops burst into a rasping yell, and a hundred flames jetted toward the retreating band. Before they knew what had come over them, the base runners were watching the man, edging off the bases, advancing, retreating, held as by an invisible cord. The Huron sprang like a tiger on his offending and already retreating country man, but the falling form of Uncas separated the unnatural combatants. Skinner answered tersely, receiving the little roll of bills without hesitation, and retreating into a quiet corner, where he carefully counted and examined every one. Clausen accompanied them to the elevator, all smiles, patronage, and beneficence, while the clerks turned their heads to follow Joe's retreating figure. Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid on her shoulder. Our warriors then rushed up to the roofs of the buildings which we occupied and followed the retreating armada with a continuous fusillade of deadly fire. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of retreating? Words that rhyme with retreating What is the plural of retreating? What is the adjective for retreating? What is the noun for retreating? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words retreated retreatant retreat retreads retread retransmitted retreats retrench retrenched retrenchment retrial retribute 10-letter Words Starting With r re ret retr retre retrea retreat retreati retreatin