"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- ELEVEN Our precipitous retreat was in itself so unnatural as to startle me when, back at the door rent, I paused to think.
- Although he glanced rapidly from one side to the other he could not have seen Michael Strogoff, owing to his precipitous retreat.
- When Traun learned of this, he ordered a precipitous retreat to Capua, abandoning armaments and camp equipment along the way.
- The enemy's precipitous retreat called for a continuation of the attack regardless of the troop's exhaustion.
- Those qualms, they say, were heightened by the precipitous retreat in the value of Hewlett-Packard shares, from nearly $65 each in July 2000 to $21.50 last Friday.
- Before hecould lead them in a precipitous retreat down the gill, Mary burst outof the vestry door.
- He was noted for his precipitous retreat and failure to reinforce Colonel Tretyakov at the Battle of Nanshan, leading directly to the Russian defeat.
- Caligula was "full of threats" against "the barbarians," but at the same time prone to precipitous retreats and flights of panic.
- It is not clear that global warming is responsible for this precipitous retreat (retreating glaciers elsewhere, like those in the Alps, offer much more convincing smoking guns).
- Although not the first to do so, he calls for the creation of new forms and styles and a precipitous retreat from the anachronistic imitations of English literature.
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