"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With that, he beat a hasty but dignified retreat from the meeting.
- Miranda watched, smiling a little ruefully, as the director made a dignified but hasty retreat to the punch bowl.
- Listing slightly every few steps, she made as dignified a retreat as was possible on heels that stupid.
- But there is one thing essential to a dignified retreat.
- When the last probe transmissions abruptly ended, Branson Roberts made ready for his dignified but rapid retreat, as on his two previous excursions.
- A dignified retreat prompted by caution was one thing; abject flight, another.
- He had to make a dignified and orderly retreat.
- You know; it's still not too late for me to shoot and blow up anything that moves, while we beat a dignified but hasty retreat.
- Zhang nodded quickly, gathered up the rest of his people with his eyes, and led them in a hurried but dignified retreat back around the corner.
- It wasn't a particularly dignified retreat, as retreats went, and Toby grinned nastily after her.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.
eTutor English
Historial de búsqueda
Podcasts
Aplicaciones móviles y complementos Diki
About Diki
Enviar sugerencia