"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mixed reception of his shows at the Public sent him into retreat as a playwright, and he concentrated on acting in other people's work.
- Sent the survivors into retreat a second time.
- His slight movement towards her sent her into retreat.
- They managed to send Plo into retreat, but Luke was hurt.
- But disappointing data from the US later sent the index into retreat.
- Stepping on one would not send the colony into retreat.
- It was put forward in the Hall that you should be sent into retreat for contemplation.
- They immediately launched an attack, only to be sent into retreat in disarray by Cortina's forces.
- It felt rather like wrapping myself in bent light, only now I was using that light to send sleeping night into retreat.
- The recent unsettling events had sent him into retreat.
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