Definition: 1. To move away from a place or an enemy because you are in danger or because you have been defeated. 2. To move away or back. 3. To change your mind about something because of criticism or because a situation has become too difficult.
Use 'retreat' in a sentence:
1. He did not retreat.
2. The French, suddenly outnumbered, were forced to retreat.
3. Yesterday's vote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position.
4. Retreating soldiers were dousing homes and shops with petrol and setting them on fire.
5. 'I've already got a job,' I said quickly, and retreated from the room.
6. Cockburn decided it was time to beat a hasty retreat.
7. His team retreated last night with tails tucked firmly between their legs.
8. Clearly, certain diseases are beating a retreat in the face of medical advances.
9. Instead of working 2-3 jobs, launching a business, or doing what it takes to succeed, they retreat.
10. The term retreat is applied to the short-term escape behavior of desert animals, and it usually assumes the pattern of a daily rhythm.
11. The enemy troops were in full retreat.
12. He retreated behind a veil of cigarette smoke.
13. He persuasively argued that such an ice-free corridor did not exist until much later, when the continental ice began its final retreat.
14. He spent yesterday hidden away in his country retreat.
15. Shell Cottage provides the perfect retreat from the hustle and bustle of London.
16. He was not one to retreat but rather one who would take up the gauntlet.
17. All the lagoons join when the lake is high and fish must retreat to their stream refuges or die.
18. It's not necessarily a species in retreat.
19. Animals also have to adapt to desert conditions, and they may do it through two forms of behavioral adaptation: they either escape or retreat.
20. 'I've got to fix my hair,' I said and retreated to my bedroom.
21. He went to the entrance of their retreat and put his head out.
22. They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.
23. Thatched pavilions provide shady retreats for relaxing and reading in privacy.
24. Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.
25. I believe people should live in houses that allow them to retreat from the harsh realities of life.
26. The police retreated at a sprint.
27. The enemy is in full-scale retreat.
28. Before this awful apparition, I retreat in terror that is upon me as I write.
29. The young nurse pulled a face at the Matron's retreating figure.
30. The president's remarks appear to signal that there will be no retreat from his position.
31. That rate of heating is far greater than during the last glacial retreat some 12,000 years ago.
32. Is watching television a retreat from reality?
33. He commanded his men to retreat.
34. He went into retreat and tried to resolve the conflicts within himself.
35. Croatian army troops retreated from northern Bosnia and the area fell to the Serbs.
36. The army was in full retreat.
37. One after another the Italian bases in the desert fell as the retreat turned into a rout.
38. John Canty delivered himself of a furious curse and commanded a retreat; but it was too late.
39. The government had retreated from its pledge to reduce class sizes.
40. In June 1942, the British 8th Army was in full retreat.
41. He watched her retreating figure.
42. The flood waters slowly retreated.
43. If your ordinary life is out of control, then retreating into a cosy ritual will not improve matters.
44. The Senator made an embarrassing retreat from his earlier position.
45. The army was forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses.
46. Bored with the conversation, she retreated to her bedroom.
