"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If true, it was an ignominious retreat for one of the century's mass killers.
- He did find a cave, but beat a hasty, ignominious retreat upon finding himself nose to nose with a she-bear and her cubs.
- He is about to beat an ignominious retreat.
- It then acted as a rear guard during the Federal's ignominious retreat to Washington.
- She glanced over at the bar but the centurion had beaten an ignominious retreat.
- Now the deadly wave had actually caught up with them, meaning that this ignominious retreat was the last chance they had to save lives.
- But even if 10,000 monitors were sent to police this extremely porous border, the plan represents an ignominious retreat.
- Gentleman Tom was licked and fled into ignominious retreat under the stove: but there were a good many feathers strewn over the kitchen floor first.
- Google has become more strident on the issue since its ignominious retreat from China almost two years ago.
- To save material, Shirazi had to try the ignominious retreat 15 ... Bf8.
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