beat a hasty retreat in a sentence

Examples

1. The mother, blissfully oblivious that anything might be amiss, smiled beatifically as we beat a hasty retreat.
2. A moment later you hear a snarling bark and a crash as the intruders beat a hasty retreat.
3. The survivors beat a hasty retreat.
4. Within minutes of the proceedings, irate shareholders unleashed their wrath on chairperson Rita Singh who beat a hasty retreat.
5. "The Iraqi planes . . . turned sharply and beat a hasty retreat, " said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon.
6. Most were never paid, and were abandoned to fend for themselves when the Japanese army beat a hasty retreat.
7. But soon the talk turned sour, for an SEC inquiry materialized, Sculley beat a hasty retreat, woe piled on woe.
8. Many of the women were left behind enemy lines in foreign countries when the Japanese army beat a hasty retreat.
9. He says he had to beat a hasty retreat from a restaurant after flirting with a waitress who got suspicious.
10. In reality, Albert was never poisoned and the Pudding Owners take advantage of the confusion to beat a hasty retreat.