"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The crusaders were turned back after their dwindling supplies led to a forced retreat.
- It's a good principle not to delay what will be a forced retreat.
- Then the Battle of Caporetto defeat, with its forced retreat, caused 76a Squadriglia to relocate quickly thrice in November 1917.
- - so has the 1996 Clinton victory now produced an explanation in the same ringing meter for its forced retreat from some questionable political fund raising: "It was a temple, you idiot!"
- Since his forced retreat from power in a corruption scandal, Tom DeLay, the former House Republican majority leader, must have been watching re-runs of "Cool Hand Luke."
- I raved on, waving my fist, shouting with what I hoped would sound like the bravado often used to cover a forced retreat.
- His men grumbled when Theseus began to lead them in a forced retreat.
- A lower-off and forced retreat left the top section still to climb.
- This forced retreat gave him time for reflection, meditation and produced in him a late awakening to religious faith.
- The forced retreat, a culmination of years of distrust between the peasants and the mine, was a chastening blow for an industry in the midst of a boom.
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