Example sentences for: retreats

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

  • Then Schmidt retreats from us, lost in a cloth that Begley throws over him, and what began as a sharp examination of public restraint and private release dwindles into a self-pity which seems not merely Schmidt's, but Begley's.

  • Funniest tidbit: Brown loathed Clinton's touchy-feely Cabinet retreats, calling them "moongazing."

  • Six beaches make this charming city one of China’s favorite summer retreats.

  • Stuck in a sexless and childless marriage (he retreats to the basement to watch porn tapes) and presented with a certainty--Tracy's election--he makes the fatal decision to fight the power.

  • They saw the Sudanese gestures toward cooperating as "tactical retreats" aimed at deceiving Washington in hopes of having sanctions removed.


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