Example Sentences

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He discovered that the war party, instead of continuing westward, were retrograding and doubling on their own trail.

From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Except Chili, all the Pacific states of South America were retrograding from a very imperfect civilization, under a succession of petty and aimless revolutions.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various