If true, it was an ignominious retreat for one of the century's mass killers.

He did find a cave, but beat a hasty, ignominious retreat upon finding himself nose to nose with a she-bear and her cubs.

He is about to beat an ignominious retreat.

It then acted as a rear guard during the Federal's ignominious retreat to Washington.

She glanced over at the bar but the centurion had beaten an ignominious retreat.

Now the deadly wave had actually caught up with them, meaning that this ignominious retreat was the last chance they had to save lives.

But even if 10,000 monitors were sent to police this extremely porous border, the plan represents an ignominious retreat.

Gentleman Tom was licked and fled into ignominious retreat under the stove: but there were a good many feathers strewn over the kitchen floor first.

Google has become more strident on the issue since its ignominious retreat from China almost two years ago.

To save material, Shirazi had to try the ignominious retreat 15 ... Bf8.