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He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than before.

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 Meanings and Examples of RETRACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
retrace
 v.  trace again; go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  We must now retrace our way a little.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
2  Let us retrace our steps, and examine as we go, with keener eyes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
3  "Oh, no, you wouldn't either," he said, hastily trying to retrace.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  They turned without delay and began to retrace their steps.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
5  He was obliged to halt and retrace his steps.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  Within a little while the regiment received orders to retrace its way.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  The mayor came to meet him, and urged him to retrace his steps.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
8  He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
9  At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
10  All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace his steps.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
11  He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than before.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
12  To retrace his steps was impossible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
13  Still I could not turn, nor retrace one step.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  But there were so many hillocks and banks to climb and pass, that, at length, I began to be weary, and told her we must halt, and retrace our steps.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes, and could not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  About 3-4 hours before I am ready to leave, I retrace my steps to the trees that I put the peanuts under earlier.
2  After a few minutes, he turned around and began to retrace his steps.
3  And the defense secretary retraced what he called the actual history of how the U.S. got involved in Iraq.
4  Police retraced the movements of the murder victim.