retreats

The leading hypothesis for the ultimate source of the Ebola virus, and where it retreats in between outbreaks, lies in bats.

It exists only in his memory, so he retreats into the confines of his mind.

One side advances, one retreats, but the details are mostly irrelevant to Mother Courage.

His comical antics come to an end once the guard retreats to his box after giving his fellow guardsman a thumbs-up.

Nancy retreats to her own kitchen briefly, quickly eating a meal of kale and eggs before getting back to her friends.

I have seen the retreats of continental armies in my time; they are always a scene of horrors.

If a cliff shore retreats rapidly, it may be driven back into the shore, and its face assumes the curve of a small bay.

In rejecting this system, she had no friend to conduct her to the warm, sheltered, and congenial retreats of evangelical piety.

Hence those great devotions, those austere retreats from the world, of which some of them have given an example.

As she sees the thief she stifles a scream and retreats, backing the man out behind her.