"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Thankfully, the corridor remained unoccupied, so that nobody witnessed his humiliating retreat.
- It would appear that one side or another must beat a public and humiliating retreat for these meetings to have a meaningful outcome, some analysts said.
- It had forced Khrushchev to remove his missiles, a humiliating retreat and a considerable loss of face in the international community.
- Her clarification, of course, had turned into kRo's humiliating retreat.
- Vespasian was closest to them, the legate of the II nd, who had seen his men forced into humiliating retreat at the river.
- Their meddling threatens to force the United States from a widely admired position of leadership into humiliating retreat.
- The British curbed their ambitions in Afghanistan following this humiliating retreat from Kabul.
- The army was determined not to repeat its humiliating retreat from Indochina.
- The United Nations, they feared, would become drawn into a vicious ethnic civil war and eventually forced to beat a humiliating retreat.
- Things do not go according to plan, as Rick's group puts up a tenacious defense that leads to a humiliating retreat.
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