Example Sentences

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I was retracing my steps of 20 years earlier to a scene of mass death I had never been able to erase from my mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

“Well, I was so moved by the whole thing. It was retracing three decades of my life and, obviously, three decades of Jack’s life.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2019

Grinkrug said she was retracing her steps not out of any particular desire to relive the experience but out of a mixture of gratitude and guilt.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2017

I was retracing the steps of Charles Dickens, who ascended this same pass to get to the monastery while living in Switzerland in 1846.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2012

In real life, Weary was retracing his steps, trying to find out what had happened to Billy.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut