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

I had retraced my steps, leapt the wall again, and as I approached our house was surprised to see, in the dim light of the coming morning, a figure standing guard at the doorway.

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth