I withdrew several yards inside my room, to let it go safely by.

Inside was a manila envelope, which he withdrew and tucked inside his suit coat.

While that was going on, Picard withdrew inside the shuttlecraft and tapped his combadge.

He withdrew deep inside himself, and shut down all his Maze-given gifts.

The canons withdrew inside the thick city walls of 's-Hertogenbosch.

For the next two days she withdrew inside herself to a place where no one could hurt her.

But in the moments between them, he seemed to withdraw inside himself and brood over something.

Would they take over human worlds and star systems once humans withdrew inside their own self-contained universes?

Eviane withdrew to a deeper, cooler place inside her mind.

The reader sees him through his brother's eyes, as a quiet, introspective person with a tendency to withdraw inside himself.