Some people here, overwhelmed by their fight for survival, have retreated into apathy.

Some people retreated to their cells, refusing to face our situation.

Some people who suffer terrible abuse as children retreat into their own heads.

Look, once people retreated from their Chandeliers, they went down to live on planets again.

The indigenous people who make the world's forests their home are retreating in the face of agricultural expansion.

Instead the people at the hangar had retreated into the dome.

In the most rural areas, people retreat to storm shelters.

This is where his people retreated to fortify themselves nearly three hundred years ago.

Kirkman thought that it was perhaps a place where holy men or religious people retreated.

Instead, the people should retreat into introspection, seeking to learn more about themselves so that they could grow in wisdom and strength.