Example sentences for: retreated

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

  • The Republican "revolutionaries" who took over Congress in 1994 pledged to abolish three departments (Energy, Education, Commerce), but quickly retreated.

  • The white parishioners fled, and blacks retreated to the borderline separatist rhetoric of empowerment and self-reliance.

  • Abandoning the New Territories and Kowloon, the defenders retreated to Hong Kong island, hoping for relief which never came.

  • d) Has not retreated from vicious attacks on Starr, despite evidence of Clinton's lies.

  • A caller warned of a bomb near the Omagh courthouse, but the bomb actually exploded in an area where the crowds had retreated to get away from the courthouse.


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