retreat from something

How would they retreat from a 10 to a 14 culture?

The man retreated further from his side of the wall.

However, she retreated from the public eye for a while.

It could no longer turn around and retreat back from the point.

Had we not retreated from the world where such things were important?

You know I won't retreat from the world like women are supposed to do.

We've got to learn how to retreat from the world that we're in.

He had retreated from the situation in the best possible way, by going to sleep.

But she wasn't ready to retreat so fully from the world.

A result is a building that doesn't retreat from the city, but makes us fall in love with it all over again.