Retraced Sentence Examples

He then retraced his steps to the northwest.

Alex replaced the receiver and retraced his steps to the lobby.

The route could always be retraced if it was the wrong one.

General Orero, successor of Baldissera, pushed offensive action more vigorously, and on the 26th of January 1890 entered Adowa, a city considerably to the south of the Marchan imprudent step which aroused Meneleks suspicions, and had hurriedly to be retraced.

He retraced his steps to Strassburg and Basel; and, at the end of 1526, obtained a preacher's post at Aigle, then a dependency of Bern.

So costly was this victory, however, that Bata, finding he could not reduce Neustadt, retraced his steps and established himself in his magnificent tent (whence the name "golden") on the Volga.

On the 23rd of the same month he obtained a decree closing all the churches of Paris, and placing the priests under strict surveillance; but on the 25th he retraced his steps and obtained from the Commune the free exercise of worship. He wished to save the Hebertists by a new insurrection and struggled against Robespierre; but a revolutionary decree promulgated by the Commune on his demand was overthrown by the Convention.

The scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left.

I was then more or less out of time so retraced my steps back to Dalaman and flew home.

After these failures Caesar determined to take no active part in politics for a time, and retraced his steps to the East in order to study rhetoric under Molon, at Rhodes.

He marched to the neighbourhood of Constantinople, but finding himself unable to undertake the siege of that superbly strong city, he retraced his steps westward and then marched southward through Thessaly and the unguarded pass of Thermopylae into Greece.

Notwithstanding the rigour of the season, Harlan retraced his steps, and Nicephorus was compelled to observe his engagements.

He accompanied them on their return, by way of the Casiquiare canal, and afterwards retraced his route to the Orinoco.

She closed her eyes and retraced the route to the cottage in her mind, only distantly aware she was absorbing his energy.

Thus, while on the one hand the various cycles traced and retraced by all nations are similar and y et independent, on the other hand, being actually derived from Roman history, they become converted in the Scienza nuova into a bed of Procrustes, to which the history of all nations has to be fitted by force.

In carrying out this scientific procedure false steps will from time to time be made, which will have to be retraced, or rather amended; but the combination of experimental science with theory has elevated our presumption of the rationality of all natural processes, so far as we can apprehend them at all, into practical certainty; so that, though the mode of presentation of the results may vary from age to age, it is hardly conceivable that the essentials of the method are not of permanent validity.

But at the door he stopped and then retraced his steps.

A fluent Arab speaker who has himself served in the SAS, he retraced the footsteps of the patrol.

The women traced the pasture 13. we retraced the route we took last summer 14.

To a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease, this information is lost and his steps cannot be retraced.

They retraced their steps until they reached another fork in the tunnel.

One flip of the switch and she retraced her steps, quietly slipping under the covers to snuggle close to Alex again.

She retraced his steps since he entered, seeking anything she might have missed.

He retraced his steps a few paces to assure he was on the soft dry sand above the high-tide line, carefully placed his towel down, sat on it and removed his shoes and socks.

Eyes on the ground, she retraced their steps until she found the circle she'd drawn.

She retraced her steps until she reached the tall walls outside of the orchard.