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Example sentences for "retreat from"

  • The sagacious eye of Tecumseh soon perceived indications of a retreat from Malden, and he promptly enquired into the matter.

  • Count Kevenhuller was obliged to retreat from Servia; and Nissa was retaken by the Mussulmen.

  • Then came news of Butler's retreat from Drewry's Bluff, close in to Richmond.

  • When he found it necessary to retreat from Lynchburg, did he not take the most feasible route?

  • In this manner did Ney support the retreat from Wiazma to EvĂ©, and a few wersts beyond it.

  • Marshal Macdonald's retreat from Riga--Details of the defection of the Prussian Army under Yorck 377 X.

  • You must imagine us like Napoleon in the "Retreat from Moscow" picture.

  • In Napoleon's Retreat from Russia, he suggests in the tragic sunset lighting of the sky, the frightful demoralization and suffering of Napoleon's army, defeated by boundless steppes and relentless winter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always liked; being acted; burial ground; came first; chief engineer; could love; country places; distinctly heard; join their; marine deposits; outward appearance; over the fire till; owned enterprises; papal power; primitive religion; recent years; resume their; retreat from; rushed upon; spake unto; thick woods; truth will