Retreating in example sentence

Swinging from comedy to tragedy and back, this film shows how people deal with the worst kind of life each in their own way, mostly retreating into themselves and living in the fantasy worlds of their own heads, withdrawing emotionally from those around them or drowning themselves in alcohol.

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We're talking about a society that is retreating into depression and disassociation when we are potentially confronting the next great catastrophic climate shift.

They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the moorings simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline.

It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lungs.

The images that more readily come to mind are things like retreating glaciers and polar bears adrift on icebergs.

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