How to Use retreat in a Sentence

retreat

1 of 2 noun

• Some of her friends were surprised by her retreat from public life following her defeat in the election.
• Here are 10 ski weeks and retreats to check out this year.
  — Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Build your own cheery retreat just a few steps away from home.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2023
• Howe Island—the fourth largest in the chain of islands—is home to the lakeside retreat called Nokomis.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
• Florio did not say when the retreat was held or whether there was more than one such event.
  — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• This woodsy Washington retreat is a dream come true for adults and kids alike.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• The host is sharing a first look at the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom retreat that one lucky fan will get the keys to in the video tour, above.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• Most of the movie takes place at a remote hideaway where Pinochet (now played by Jaime Vadell) dwells in weary retreat from the outside world.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Since plans for the retreat have already been developed, the new owner will be able to jump right into the project with ease.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 2 June 2023
• The Sha retreat, which sits on the edge of a nature preserve and offers brilliant water views, opened in late 2008.
  — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
• This plan may include a day-long retreat, a walk in the woods, or generous time spent with music.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• In the show, a group is invited to a retreat at a secluded resort in Iceland ... but soon, one of the guests is found dead.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• Each of the 16 rooms is designed to feel like a mini retreat inspired by the seasons and different moons.
  — Carine Lavache, ELLE, 21 July 2023
• But to say that the Russian business retreats are somehow helping Putin is false.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• The bedroom transforms from neutral-toned retreat by day to sparkling oculus by night.
  — Amy Chin, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2023
• The church where Delp is a pastor does an annual couples retreat, as well.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• At least 80% of Haiti's capital city is controlled by gangs and there is no end in sight as the government is in full retreat.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 2 June 2023
• The town has long been a retreat for creatives, who first began claiming San Miguel De Allende as a haven for the arts in the middle of the 20th century.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
• More than 10 years after that high-profile retreat, the shoe is on the other foot, even if the circumstances aren’t exactly the same.
  — Laura He, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• This year, being at a wellness retreat that served high-quality food set the tone for my eating habits.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
• Donors loan Merkel their vacation homes, and retreat leads help partners come back to each other.
  — Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2023
• These gunshots should have spurred greater urgency to confront the suspect, the report said, rather than marked a retreat.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
• How does the narrator’s queerness interact with the sense of solitude, or retreat, in the story?
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• The Greenbrier Resort – where the Browns are holding their first days of training camp this week – has long been a retreat for the wealthy and well-connected.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• Prepare to leave each retreat with your body feeling restored, and mind transformed.
  — Maridel Reyes, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• The inclusive beach town of Brighton to the south, or the bucolic countryside of the Cotswolds to the west are ideal, if not predictable, summertime retreats.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
• But sea-level rise is inevitable and not getting out in front of it seems to leave only one option: chaotic retreat.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Paltrow’s bonding retreat follows a contentious first half of the year for the actress, whose ski collision trial came to a close in March.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• The traumatized but steel-nerved Early, in retreat from a world that has done great violence to her, turns out to be the wellspring of the family’s survival.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• The next month, after learning about the retreat, Dr. Johnson submitted a second complaint.
  — Brendan Borrell, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024

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retreat

2 of 2 verb

• He quickly retreated from the room.
• When the enemy attacked, our troops were forced to retreat.
• They retreated behind trees for safety.
• After her defeat, she retreated from politics.
• They will then be forced to retreat, as the church ladies did.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• But in the rush to retreat, his army didn’t bring enough food or supplies.
  — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
• The crawfish then retreat into the earth to lay their eggs and emerge in the late fall as the ponds are refilled.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• That the Ukrainians retreated doesn’t mean the assault was a waste.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 29 Oct. 2023
• In the heart of the home, the kitchen opens to a family room and back porch, while on the wings, four bedrooms and a study offer quieter places to retreat.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 19 June 2023
• In Childhood Calling, one of the show’s cool-tinged paintings, the artist retreats to her early years.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• When dawn would arrive with no leads, the trio would retreat to Tierney’s car to debrief.
  — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• The bill dies, and the negotiations stop; the threat is over, so the parties retreat to their corners.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
• By the time rescuers arrived, the water had begun to retreat.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Boats can be rented and sailed out to the water, there’s a pool somewhere in the resort and a number of places for a person to retreat from the world.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
• Stock gains were fairly broad, with utilities the only sector in the S&P 500 to retreat.
  — WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• At least four times in the past 15 months, members of the alliance known as OPEC+ have slashed oil output, only for prices to soon retreat anyway.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2023
• The show’s star, Maya Rudolph, retreated to her trailer and was unwilling to return to set.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• Turner, then 34, retreated to a nearby wood deck, sat down, buried his head in his hands and appeared to sob.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• Martinez rushed to the classroom but retreated after he was shot at by the gunman and injured.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• Shares of fellow chip maker Nvidia also retreated, with the stock down about 2%.
  — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• The iCarly reboot would continue on without him, and the face of the network retreated from the public eye.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
• This redesign offers a new haven to retreat and recharge in calming comfort.
  — Ryan Slattery, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
• In his years studying snow in the Sierra Nevada, Painter has seen glaciers retreat with the rise in temperatures.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Ali and Abu Reem retreated behind the partition for the second act: a puppet show.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Then, retreat to the on-site Inn at Laurita Winery, where rooms are housed in a restored farmhouse.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• Humeniuk said the flooding had caused Russian forces to retreat from their first lines of defense.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• What gives? Most likely the court will try to retreat from the vile implications of the Fifth Circuit’s Rahimi opinion.
  — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
• Advertisement By the next morning, they’d been forced to retreat.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• Investors shied away from high-growth stocks and retreated into companies with solid fundamentals and, most importantly, lots of profit.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024