Example Sentences

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When Welsh writer Iain Sinclair set out for the Peruvian Amazon with his daughter in 2019, the pair were retracing a journey his great-grandfather, a traveling planter and writer, described in an 1895 book.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

“It was like we were retracing their steps,” she said.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2015

They were retracing Charles Howard’s youthful journey, thirty years later.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

They had turned and were retracing their steps in the friendly birch avenue leading to the parsonage.

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

They were retracing their way down one of the narrowest and darkest canals, when the warning cry,—"premi-o!"—echoing round an unsuspected corner told them of an approaching gondola.

From A Venetian June by Fuller, Anna