6 sentences with 'retreated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word retreated and other words derived from it.
• « Also, late in his life, Suleiman retreated to the inner chambers of the palace to live out his days as a reclusive mystic, setting a disastrous precedent that left rule in the hands of advisors. »
• « It is important to recognise that it was indeed the USSR that broke the back of the Nazi war machine. At the cost of at least 25,000,000 lives (some estimates go as high as thirty million), the Soviets first stalled, then retreated and finally destroyed the vast majority of the German military forces. »
• « So that nothing could favour the enemy, Belgrano ordered the people of Jujuy, carrying all their goods, to follow the army as it retreated. On 23 August, "the Jujuy exodus" began, as such a self-sacrificing event is called in Argentine history. »
• « After being defeated at Ayohuma, Belgrano retreated with the remnants of his troops to Jujuy and Salta. »
• « Its inhabitants retreated to walled cities, fearing plunder from Vikings, Mongols, Arabs and Magyars. »