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Example sentences for: retreat

How can you use “retreat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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Gould (in another sign of strategic retreat) concedes that people have a biologically based "capacity" to view enemies as "beyond fellowship and ripe for slaughter."
The Moors were on the retreat, withdrawing to the almost impregnable mountain fortress area of Granada, where they held out until 1492.
Post ies, on the other hand, obsess on the Times . Last month at the Post 's annual "Pugwash" editorial retreat, outgoing Managing Editor Robert Kaiser began his speech with the preposterous boast that the Post , with a staff half the size of the Times ', "does more for its readers, day in and day out."
2) Even if the good times keep on rolling, the promised retreat of red ink depends on Congress and the president devising--and sticking with--a tax-cut package that includes both sides' favorite giveaways but still costs less than $85 billion over five years.