RETRACT in a Sentence

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For RETRACT, below is one of 25 sentences:
During the whole time of the excitement, and through all the criticism, I did not utter a word of explanation or retraction.

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 Meanings and Examples of RETRACT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
retract
 v.  withdraw; take back; draw back or in
Classic Sentence:
1  "I retract nothing," she said briefly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  "I retract nothing," she repeated.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  He declared that he would never retract one word, and that he was quite prepared to lose all his pupils.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
4  The instant is solemn; there is still time to retract if you think you have been mistaken.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
5  In all probability, this time his master would not retract.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
6  D'Artagnan's friends reminded him that he had a visit to pay, but at the same time bade him observe that there was yet time to retract.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 39 A VISION
7  Sometimes he wished that he had never known Eustacia, immediately to retract the wish as brutal.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
8  Many of the coloured papers, especially those that were the organs of religious bodies, joined in the general chorus of condemnation or demands for retraction.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
9  During the whole time of the excitement, and through all the criticism, I did not utter a word of explanation or retraction.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
10  Come," said he, "this matter will want a good deal of talking over; a retractation is always a serious thing, you know.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
11  A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  However, the permission was given, and was never retracted; for when the month was out, Peggotty and I were ready to depart.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
13  Had they been spoken to anyone save Rhett she would have shamelessly retracted them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
14  Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence:
1  Mr Smith hurriedly sought to retract the statement, but it had just been broadcast on national radio.
2  Galileo was not the first scientist to be forced to retract his theories.
3  Torn muscles retract, and lose strength, structure, and tightness.
4  What I find remarkable and commendable is how many chances she was given to retract, amend or otherwise clarify.
5  "Conditions will probably only start to retract from the middle of the first quarter of 2007," Downing said.
6  Miss Pearce said she expected an unqualified retraction of his comments within twenty four hours.
7  The newspaper was forced to publish a retraction of its allegations.
8  When questioned on TV, the minister retracted his allegations.
9  He made a false confession which he later retracted.
10  He confessed to the murder but later retracted his statement.
11  The Living area is a rectangular space with a polished concrete floor, eighty percent enclosed by retractable glass walls, and single-span composite timber beams supporting the sub-roof ceiling.