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How to use retrace in a sentence

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There was a helpless entreaty in his voice, as though he were afraid that she might see him and retrace her steps.
She tried to retrace the words she had said faultily, yet it never made sense.
See how far you can get in your chosen time, stop and rest 2-5 minutes, then turn around, reset the clock and retrace your route.
Her convent education fails her in her moment of greatest need, though it does enable her to retrace her steps down an older path with new eyes.
Some nights when I cannot sleep I retrace in my mind some of my favorite walks through the city.
In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again.
Rather than retrace our steps, we continued southwards, traversing the mountain down to a pass called Bwlch Tryfan.
Lee's book has made me retrace the binary oppositions that have shaped prior discussions of critical pedagogy.
Though the manager had coaxed us more than once to stay back, we decided to retrace our steps and proceed to Binsar by late forenoon.
Endeavour will sail from Whitehaven, Cumbria, on November 8, on a homeward route that will retrace some of Cook's voyages.
We could be stopped by Tajik guards and sent back, forced to retrace our journey in reverse.
Turn right on the far side of the bridge and retrace your steps along a section of the canal towpath walked earlier.
Take an inventory of what you have with you and mentally retrace your steps.
Visitors can also retrace the steps of Samuel Hearne by climbing the esker that was his vantage point on Shethanei Lake.
In August, re-enactors will launch a keelboat in the Ohio River to retrace the 2,000-mile Lewis and Clark expedition, which started in Pittsburgh.
He set out on a bicycle, carrying a bagful of Canadian pins, to retrace the steps his relative took 60 years earlier during the forced march.
To understand this, we have to retrace some of the arguments.
Then suddenly they turn as if they are going to retrace the way they came.
For me, the slow pace of our walk had not just meant taking in all that I came across, but also trying to retrace those steps I had taken with my grandfather.
The merit of Boarini's paper is to retrace the three steps of the development of casuistry through history.
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Kagh had not gone far when some whim caused him to turn about as if to retrace his steps.
Mrs. Travers let fall her arm and began to retrace her steps, unsupported and alone.
We must therefore retrace our steps and re-educate the bowel systematically to empty itself at a certain time every day.
On the 11th, they ascended the Salinas and began to retrace the route of their coming.
But he did not retrace his steps in order to remonstrate with her severely in the street.
They turned, and with Sim between them Ralph and Rotha began to retrace their steps.
Yoga Rama repeatedly asked me to trace and retrace all the letters of the name.
If not, there appears to be nothing for it, but to retrace your steps whence you came.
Either cross here by paying for a ferry boat ride across to the start, or retrace steps back to the start.
When they turned to retrace their steps Brantain's face was radiant and hers was triumphant.
Let us retrace, but in such a form as to be apprehensible by all readers.
He himself would at once mount his horse, and retrace his steps to Arica.
Fearful of being caught in the downpour, I began to retrace my steps.
Did he, having come so tantalizingly near, retrace his steps?
I knew it must be near noontime, so I began to retrace my way.
I watched him go up to the letter-box and then retrace his steps.
With what emotions would she trace and retrace her own eventful story!
Conscious of the error into which her own impatience had led her, she was at a loss how to retrace the false step that she had taken.
Let us retrace our steps, and examine as we go, with keener eyes.
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