retreat
Example Sentences
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Church, who runs a wellness retreat in the Nant Caethon Valley in Powys, said her it had been a "journey" since her father's terminal diagnosis nearly a decade ago.
From BBC
“Colonized subjects resisted, forcing empire into retreat,” Daniel Immerwahr writes in “How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States.”
During this time, the annual retreat of the Nile floodwaters would have visually echoed these beliefs, as the elevated ground beneath Karnak appeared to rise and grow as the waters receded.
From Science Daily
Maybe even just a bit of a rest with the family at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat.
From BBC
A STC military official said: "There has been a retreat of our forces and we are resisting the attacking forces in Seiyun."
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
