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Example sentences for: retreating

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According to Kissinger, the breathing space created by détente gave the United States time to recover from Vietnam without retreating into isolationism, thus setting the table for Reagan.
The ice pack is forming later and retreating earlier—and it's having a serious impact on the abundance of krill, the backbone of the Antarctic food chain.
In October 1944, the Allied forces moved into Athens and much of Greece, encountering little opposition from the retreating Germans.
In the War of 1812, retreating British forces chose to destroy it rather than let it fall into American hands.
In the "X" article, the landmark 1947 essay that spelled out the fundamentals of America's Cold War strategy, George Kennan argued that "the Kremlin has no compunction about retreating in the face of superior force.