Retrace Sentence Examples

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  • She turned to retrace her route and stopped.

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  • The alternative method is to retrace the steps of addition, i.e.

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  • That leader had invaded Gilan, but, on the news reaching him of the victory which the governor of Mazandaritn had gained, he thought it prudent to retrace his steps to Sultaniyah.

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  • They were obliged, however, to retrace their way to Wei, and he wander- ings.

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  • No more trying to retrace your steps to find your car keys; you can see where you left them by checking your GPS system records.

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  • We must retrace our steps a little to enumerate several distinguished names which, from the nature of the case, hardly admit of classification.

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  • Monday 15th May 2006 Reminded of something you forgot to finish a few days ago, you may need to retrace footsteps.

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  • A few days later he was proceeding toward the Oregon border when new instructions from Washington caused him to retrace his steps and, perhaps, to consider plans for provoking war.

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  • In 321 Constantine, seeing probably that he had been wrong in abandoning his usual policy of toleration, sought to retrace his steps by granting the Donatists liberty to act according to their consciences, and declaring that the points in dispute between them and the orthodox should be left to the judgment of God.

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  • As a logical consequence of this view of disease the mode of treatment among peoples in the lower stages of culture is mainly magical; they endeavour to propitiate the evil spirits by sacrifice, to expel them by spells, &c. (see Exorcism), to drive them away by blowing, &c.; conversely we find the Khonds attempt to keep away smallpox by placing thorns and brushwood in the paths leading to places decimated by that disease, in the hope of making the disease demon retrace his steps.

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  • Now retrace your steps to the shore with a word of warning.

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  • This had to be done because the GL hardware flushes the pipeline automatically on every vertical retrace and has no command to flush.

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  • There, a little pirouette around the block pointed it back east again to retrace its steps to the Station once more.

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  • Martin made a desperate effort to get back and warn his companions, but could not retrace his steps because of the thick smoke.

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  • We retrace much of the route across the country to Wangdiphodrang, the site of a monastery perched high above the river.

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  • Every year, millions of Muslims retrace the steps of these two Prophets in the valley of Mina.

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  • A user can use a web to retrace the path taken in a previous research session.

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  • Then retrace your steps to the stile leading off the lane to the east.

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  • I turn around and retrace my steps and see him on the radar.

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  • The scene where Myles downs the spit bucket was actually filmed at this winery, so it's kind of fun to retrace his steps.

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  • Clustering like items and in shopping order will help reduce the chance you have to retrace your steps in the grocery store and can help you reduce the amount of impulse buying.

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  • A mutiny among the German soldiers and a breach with Innocent concerning the overlordship of Apulia compelled the emperor to retrace his steps.

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  • Their direction we cannot retrace with certainty.

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  • Here he was obliged by the temper of his army to retrace his steps, and retreat to the Jhelum, whence he sailed down the river to its confluence with the Indus, and thence to Patala, probably the modern Hyderabad.

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  • Along the same road by which it descended the soul must retrace its steps back to the supreme Good.

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  • She reluctantly relinquished the kitten and watched him retrace his steps to the barn.

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  • Neither wanted to retrace their steps to investigate.

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  • By trailing a thread behind them spiders are able to drop from any height to the ground and to retrace their steps with certainty to a particular spot.

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  • Before relating, however, the exact occurrences which produced its defeat, it is necessary to retrace our steps and describe the policy which it had pursued in internal matters during the six years in which it had been in power.

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  • In order to understand the utter inability of the old republican party to withstand these changes, it is needful to retrace our steps and consider the skilful use made by Bonaparte of plots and disturbances as they occurred.

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  • Subsequently he continued his abstinence, saying that, as he was already half-way on the road to death, he would not trouble to retrace his steps.

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  • Abdalmalik was obliged to retrace his steps and to lay siege to his own capital.

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