Sentence for retreating | Use retreating in a sentence

Sentences for retreating. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use retreating in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for retreating.

• Thirza looked after the retreating figure. (8)
• A volley followed the foe, retreating in the dark. (18)
• A shriek from Miss Alice checked my retreating steps. (10)
• The sounds were retreating, and Anne distinguished no more. (4)
• The school retreating caught up the Alpine cry in the distance. (10)
• In the footsteps of this retreating force followed 3000 of the enemy. (19)
• He threw dignity into his retreating figure in response to the internal interrogation. (10)
• Mrs. Boulby herself brought his glass to Stephen, and, retreating, left the parlour-door open. (10)
• Mrs. Boulby herself brought his glass to Stephen, and, retreating, left the parlour-door open. (22)
• Janet gazed steadily after the retreating figures, and then commended me to the search for rooms. (10)
• General Goodwin was hurrying the prince up the steps, the squire at the same time retreating hastily. (10)
• The music ceased; rather, it became by insensible degrees the distant roll of a retreating thunder-storm. (1)
• Scarcely had she closed the door behind her, scarcely did he hear the sound of her retreating steps, when he raced after her. (12)
• They were genuine, or she would better have been able to second her efforts to catch a distinct vision of his retreating figure. (10)
• One of these was a tall, pale, ascetic-looking man, with grey hairs, and retreating forehead, slow in speech, and lugubrious in demeanour. (6)
• But already our retreating men, in obedience to their officers, their courage and their instinct of self-preservation, had formed along the fence and opened fire. (7)
• Had anything in all this vast concatenation been overlooked Private Searing might have fired on the retreating Confederates that morning, and would perhaps have missed. (1)
• Other fresh regiments joined in the countercharge, commanderless groups of retreating men returned to their work, and there ensued a hand-to-hand contest of incredible fury. (7)

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