Example Sentences

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Part of the rebuilding task must include marking and remembering, trying to retie threads that connect us to history and place.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025

With his frozen fingers, it took him many minutes to retie them.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Not long after, I pause to retie the soaked laces of my left sneaker beneath a bronze statue of a Mountie and his horse.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2022

The signs seemed to remind visitors to bend down and retie their shoelaces, perhaps to gather a promising souvenir or two of the original sin in the process.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

He would have liked to retie the bandage, but it could wait.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman