had retraced
- past perfect of retrace.
Example Sentences
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The coroner’s investigator, who had retraced Gil’s life before his demise, helped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
On a country road I had retraced some steps, and a path taken long ago had somehow, fittingly, come full circle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014
But one day after what many likely interpreted as an “all clear” for selling in the short term, the stock had retraced virtually all of the previous session’s decline.
From Forbes ● Aug. 28, 2012
The huntsmen had retraced their steps halfway to Winterfell without finding any sign of where the Starks might have parted company with the direwolves.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
If here I had but paused, and had retraced my steps, The whole world would have known and praised my name, For I was first to find the secret out.
From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry
