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.