More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than perhaps aught else.
Licensed retreats are subject to inspection by an Inspector of Retreats appointed by the Home Secretary, to whom he makes an annual report.
There are public institutions for the poor, and well-appointed private retreats and homes for the rich.
Lucullus Retreats to Mesopotamia Capture of Nisibus A formal mutiny compelled the general to order a retreat, which he effected with his usual skill.
Instead of answering this, he retreats into the general reflection, that it must result from the nature of things, that the States, being parties, must judge for themselves.
Then they retire with a promptitude which does not permit of their being followed to their savage fastnesses, which are unknown to the Spaniards themselves--retreats whence they very soon reappear, to commit fresh massacres.
Marion and his men had retreats in the woods and swamps, whence they made sudden raids upon the British.
The land seems to rise because the sea retreats as the result of the subsidence of the crust within the great oceanic basins.
Falsan, do not believe in the existence of any interglacial stages, although they readily admit that there were great advances and retreats of the ice during the Glacial period.
In other words, the land seems to rise simply because the sea retreats owing perhaps to the sinking of the crust within the great oceanic basins.
Ancient Irish monks and churchmen must have been peculiarly gifted with an appreciation of the strange, unique, and beautiful in nature, or they would not have fixed their retreats in such peculiar places.
It is one of the most beautiful sylvan islandretreats in Europe.
Another one comes up, as though to support his friend, so that the last dash of the mistle-thrush is at the two, after which he retreats with much honour.
A group of people from a British ship have gone ashore to stretch their legs, when enemies approach, the ship's boat retreats to the ship and they are left stranded ashore.
The devotees whom the fame of Antony and of the Coenobites of the Nile had drawn in crowds to the East returned at the close of the fourth century to found similar retreats in the isles which line the coasts of the Mediterranean.
Near morning they went into one of their many retreats in the chaparral, fettering their prisoner.
These mountains offeredretreats that had never known the tread of human footsteps.
Only when the air is poisoned by smoke and drainage, and vegetation retreats before the approach of slums, do they leave their natural friends to live without the charm of their voices—all but that strange parasite of mankind, the Sparrow.
All this lower part of the Cherwell, from Holywell mill to its mouth at the barges, abounds in snug and secure retreats for the birds.
They aim at becoming cities or homes for the best of people; fresh centres to which shall be brought the newest elements of civilization from the North and South; retreats for jaded pleasure-seekers; asylums for invalids.
But to these retreatsthey must in time be followed, therefrom dislodged, and again set going.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retreats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
