By the time she had, he had already come inside her sword reach, and she had to skitter into another desperate retreat.

And planning for what to do if disaster struck and he had to pull another desperate retreat out of his hat.

So in the end she found the ultimate oblivion, of which her chronic latecomings and desperate retreats to her room were tokens.

Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight.

A series of desperate retreats and prompt doubles left South in five hearts doubled with a useless dummy.

The expedition made a desperate retreat across uncharted territory in a state of starvation, often with nothing more than lichen to eat.

Mech competition drove this desperate retreat.

It was the beginning of a long, desperate retreat through the state in 1776.

He saw the Duke's men and their riding-beasts in desperate retreat.

However, the Nadesico was overwhelmed by a massive attack and heavily damaged, forcing its desperate retreat from the planet using a Jovian transporter device.