Moreover, the ice sheet's constant retreat created fractures where it met and scoured the bedrock.

Erosion's artworks, they are the remnants of a coastline with no buffers between it and Antarctica, in constant retreat from the sea and the wind.

The tactics Leonard speaks of are not rooted in constant retreat.

Camacho was in constant retreat.

A constant retreat; putting your senses to sleep rather than facing and destroying the cause of your distress.

In the months following the army was on a constant retreat, La Sarre took a few casualties along the way.

Lost battles and constant retreat had put the morale of his Army at low ebb.

He fought in very complicated conditions: constant retreat, poor to no control and communication, overwhelming odds against superior opponent.

The Burmese army was in constant retreat from then on.

Doggedly he set himself to husband his own strength, by constant retreat if necessary, until Courcelle's frenzied attacks began to flag, as they must as last.