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beat a retreat

VERB
  1. depart hastily

How To Use beat a retreat In A Sentence

  • I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged.
  • At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics.
  • Objects and fantasy are then used not as a means of venturing out, but to beat a retreat.
  • Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins — I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged. The Monastery
  • Sir, he secured my spare doublet, and had a pluck at my galligaskins — I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged. The Monastery
  • There appeared an emergency in front. We must beat a retreat immediately.
  • ‘Come,’ thought I, ‘it's quite time, after that, for the honour of the academy, to beat a retreat, or we shall be beaten hollow by this heavy-shod clodpole.’
  • Donot beat a retreat immediately after you should make another attempt to hit it.
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