retreat
Example Sentences
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But, with retreating sea ice, there is less under-ice algae to feed the amphipods that in turn feed the whales.
From Los Angeles Times
“I don’t see any kind of retreat of the U.S. from the world,” he said.
Similar to Vegas hotels that book the biggest music superstars, like Adele or Rod Stewart, for extended residencies, the Sun Rose will make the Bowie experience a weekend retreat in the whole hotel.
From Los Angeles Times
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.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
